**\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_** **'One of the funniest, most finely achieved comic novels, even by her own standard ... I think it's a masterpiece**.' ALI SMITH **'I think Nicola Barker is incapable of a dull page. [Her work] is unified by
I Am Sovereign
β Scribed by Nicola Barker
- Publisher
- Random House
- Year
- 2019
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 160 KB
- Category
- Fiction
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
β¦ Synopsis
__________________________________________
'One of the funniest, most finely achieved comic novels, even by her own standard ... I think it's a masterpiece.' ALI SMITH
'I think Nicola Barker is incapable of a dull page. [Her work] is unified by its spirit of adventure.' KEVIN BARRY
Charles, a forty-year-old boutique teddy bear maker and wearer of ironic t-shirts, is trying β and failing β to sell his small, characterless house in Llandudno. His estate agent Avigail, whose name is definitely not Abigail, is trying β in vain β to rein in Charles's most unhelpful eccentricities, especially his repeated recounting to prospective buyers of a failed burglary that took place twelve years ago.
When Wang Shu and her daughter Ying Yue view the house, Wang Shu is mysteriously struck by a falling oyster shell β the first in a series of seemingly innocuous events distort the reality of the characters' lives and cause...
π SIMILAR VOLUMES
****___****___****___****___****___****___**** **'One of the funniest, most finely achieved comic novels, even by her own standard β¦ I think itβs a masterpiece**.' ALI SMITH **βI think Nicola Barker is incapable of a dull page. [Her work] is unified by its spirit of adventure.β** KEVIN BARRY C
**The highly anticipated sequel to _Dreadnought_ , featuring "the most exciting new superheroes in decades." (_Kirkus_ , starred review)** Only nine months after her debut as the superhero Dreadnought, Danny Tozer is already a scarred veteran. Protecting a city the size of New Port is a team-sized
Autumn, 1541. Following the uncovering of a plot against his throne in Yorkshire, King Henry VIII has set out on a spectacular Progress to the North to overawe his rebellious subjects there. Accompanied by a thousand soldiers, the cream of the nobility, and his fifth wife Catherine Howard, the King
**The third Matthew Shardlake Tudor Mystery by C. J. Sansom, the bestselling author of *Winter in Madrid* and *Dominion*** C. J . Sansom has garnered a wider audience and increased critical praise with each new novel published. His first book in the Matthew Shardlake series, *Dissolution*, was se
Autumn, 1541. Following the uncovering of a plot against his throne in Yorkshire, King Henry VIII has set out on a spectacular Progress to the North to overawe his rebellious subjects there. Accompanied by a thousand soldiers, the cream of the nobility, and his fifth wife Catherine Howard, the King