The Portable Door: J.W. Wells & Co. Book 1: Soon to be a major film starring Sam Neill, Christoph Waltz and Miranda Otto
By (Author) Tom Holt
Little, Brown Book Group
Orbit
30th March 2004
5th February 2004
United Kingdom
General
Fiction
Comic (humorous) fantasy
Satirical fiction and parodies
823.914
Paperback
448
Width 128mm, Height 196mm, Spine 28mm
320g
Starting a new job is always stressful (especially when you don't particularly want one), but when Paul Carpenter arrives at the office of H.W. Wells he has no idea what trouble lies in store. Because he is about to discover that the apparently respectable establishment now paying his salary is in fact a front for a deeply sinister organisation that has a mighty peculiar agenda. It seems that half the time his bosses are away with the fairies. But they're not, of course. They're away with the goblins. Mister Tom Holt, Master of the Comic Fantasy Novel, cordially invites you to join him in his world of madness by reading his next hilarious masterpiece.
'hugely inventive and highly amusing ...His sharply observed dialogue and the desire to think round corners and u-bends distinguish Holt's books. He has the ability to make the reader laugh out loud and should be treasured.' COMPUTERCROWSNEST 'A definite m
Tom Holt is the author of such comic fantasy classics as: 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 and Open Sesame