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Mills, Magnus
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Fiction
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1987
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English
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The Maintainance of Headway (1987)
β Scribed by Mills, Magnus
- Book ID
- 109187259
- Year
- 1987
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 65 KB
- Category
- Fiction
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β¦ Synopsis
Overview: Magnus Mills is the author of The Restraint of Beasts, which won the McKitterick Prize and was shortlisted for both the Booker Prize and the Whitbread First Novel Award in 1998, and of five other novels, including The Scheme for Full Employment, and the story collection Screwtop Thompson. He lives in London.
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It's a matter of procedure,' I explained. 'Strictly for the record. You don't get sacked from this job unless you did what Thompson did.' 'What did he do then?' 'We never mention it.' In Magnus Mills' brilliant short novel he transports us into the bizarre world of the bus drivers who take us to wor