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Readers will be enchanted" (Kirkus Reviews starred review)

Anyone who has left a meeting to race to the Halloween parade immediately understands van Ogtrop's definition of 'Kill the messenger' as 'The action you must take in order to forget about the office for a time-that is to remove your Blackberry/ Treo/ iPhone/ whatever from your person and store it as far away as your neurotic self will allow

the Refractor

Find out about the first moon landing

They arrive at Tarka

If you want fast fixes with easy wins from a supermarket

and as a highly readable anthology for the armchair traveller

Dance until dawn at a beachfront bar or escape the crowds and find solitude on a black sand beach

and it might even scandalize you

cryptic numbers on a tattered map of Québec

Quelch has especially given him leave to play in

The Metaphor Book perhaps is his