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Fiction, Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), Fantasy
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Little, Brown Audio
- Paperback Mar 30, 2004 | 9781841492087 | RRP $22.99 Buy Now
- Audiobook Aug 22, 2011 | 9781405510998 | RRP $44.99 Buy Now
- e-Book Sep 4, 2008 | 9780748108848 | RRP $12.99 Buy Now
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The course of true love never runs smooth - particularly when there's a goblin in the way! A wickedly funny new comic fantasy novel.
Starting a new job is always stressful (especially when you don't particularly want one), but when Paul Carpenter arrives at the office of J. 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.
Praise for The Portable Door: J.W. Wells & Co. Book 1: Now a major film
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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
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A definite must for all fans of comic fantasy - ENIGMA
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The jokes are delicious - SFX
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The best similes since Douglas Adams. Buy it for heaven's sake - SFX
Tom Holt
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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