Miles Gibson

• Sep-2017
• / Literary
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A bittersweet suburban comedy

When her husband drives to work in the city each morning, Holly Walker feels trapped in their house in the sleepy suburb of Meadow Bank. She is overweight, underappreciated and lonely.

But when she start...

• Jun-2017
• / Literary
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A black comedy with a plot that convolutes like an eel on speed

Frank Fisher, a marketing man for a tropical fruit company, walks out to post a letter one day and promptly disappears. He has fallen into the hands of eccentric underworld bo...

• Jan-2008
• / General Fiction
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Barmy Uncle Bernie is about to throw Little Archie`s orderly life into confusion once more! Archie and his baby brother, Joe, love clicking through their favourite programmes with their inventor uncle`s spectacular chunky channel-changing TV gadge...

• Nov-2004
• / Literary
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Charlie is woken one night to be told it's the end of the world. So what's he supposed to do about it? He can save himself by proving that he's performed one simple worthwhile act in his life. Oddly enough, that's where the story begins. Einstein is ...

• Apr-1999
• / General Fiction
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As though Martin Amis had been written by Henry Green and David Cook." - The Times Literary Supplement. "Savagely black comedy along Evelyn Waugh lines with its merriments even kinkier." - The Observer. Full of dark comic invention, teasing eroticism...

• Mar-1990
• / General Fiction
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'Woman will be the death of me,' mutters Kingdom Swann, peering up at the nude woman hung by her wrists from a pillar. An impressive old man with a wonderful wealth of beard, he appears the very picture of Victorian respectability. Yet behind the wal...

• Jun-1987
• / General Fiction
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Miles Gibson's cult novel from 1984 returns to print with a new preface by the author. Growing up in a small hotel in a shabby seaside town, lonely William 'Mackerel' Burton amuses himself by perfecting his conjuring tricks. In adult life his magi...

• Nov-1986
• / General Fiction
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First published in 1985, Miles Gibson's phantasmagoric second novel returns to print with a new preface by the author. Wreathed in legends and haunted by ghosts, the little Dorset village of Rams Horn is a fantastical seaside world where reality ...