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The Management Style of the Supreme Beings

(Paperback)


Publishing Details

Full Title:

The Management Style of the Supreme Beings

Contributors:

By (Author) Tom Holt

ISBN:

9780356506692

Publisher:

Little, Brown Book Group

Imprint:

Orbit

Publication Date:

27th June 2017

UK Publication Date:

22nd June 2017

Country:

United Kingdom

Classifications

Readership:

General

Genre:
Fiction/Non-fiction:

Fiction

Main Subject:
Other Subjects:

Humour

Dewey:

823.914

Physical Properties

Physical Format:

Paperback

Number of Pages:

400

Dimensions:

Width 129mm, Height 196mm, Spine 26mm

Weight:

280g

Description

'Highly amusing ... Eloquently snarky prose' - Publishers Weekly

'Inventively entertaining ...make you both laugh out loud and stop and think' - SFX

When the Supreme Being and his son decide that being supreme isn't for them any more, it's inevitable that things get a bit of a shake-up.

It soon becomes apparent that our new owners, the Venturi brothers, have a very different perspective on all sorts of things. Take Good and Evil, for example. For them, it's an outdated concept that never worked particularly well in the first place.

Unfortunately, the sudden disappearance of right and wrong, while welcomed by some, raises certain concerns amongst those still attached to the previous team's management style.

In particular, there's one of the old gods who didn't move out with the others. A reclusive chap, he lives somewhere up north, and only a handful even believe in him.

But he's watching. And he really does need to know if you've been naughty or nice.

What would happen if good and evil were replaced with a more dynamic system based on sound economic principles Find out in Tom Holt's wickedly funny new comic novel!

Books by Tom Holt:

Walled Orchard Series

Goatsong

The Walled Orchard

J.W. Wells & Co. Series

The Portable Door

In Your Dreams

Earth, Air, Fire and Custard

You Don't Have to Be Evil to Work Here, But It Helps

The Better Mousetrap

May Contain Traces of Magic

Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Sausages

YouSpace Series

Doughnut

When It's A Jar

The Outsorcerer's Apprentice

The Good, the Bad and the Smug

Novels

Expecting Someone Taller

Who's Afraid of Beowulf

Flying Dutch

Ye Gods!

Overtime

Here Comes the Sun

Grailblazers

Faust Among Equals

Odds and Gods

Djinn Rummy

My Hero

Paint your Dragon

Open Sesame

Wish you Were Here

Alexander at World's End

Only Human

Snow White and the Seven Samurai

Olympiad

Valhalla

Nothing But Blue Skies

Falling Sideways

Little People

Song for Nero

Meadowland

Barking

Blonde Bombshell

The Management Style of the Supreme Beings

An Orc on the Wild Side

Author Bio

Tom Holt was born in London in 1961. At Oxford he studied bar billiards, ancient Greek agriculture and the care and feeding of small, temperamental Japanese motorcycle engines. These interests led him, perhaps inevitably, to qualify as a solicitor and emigrate to Somerset, where he specialised in death and taxes for seven years before going straight in 1995. He lives in Chard, Somerset, with his wife and daughter. He also writes as K. J. Parker.

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