The Spy Who Loved MeVivienne Michel is in trouble. Trying to escape her tangled past, she has run away to the American backwoods, winding up at the Dreamy Pines Motor Court. A far cry from the privileged world she was born to, the motel is also the destination of two hardened killers the perverse Sol Horror and the deadly Sluggsy Morant. When a coolly charismatic Englishman turns up, Viv, in terrible danger, is not just hopeful, but fascinated. Because he is James Bond,

Are his own conflicts of interest making him reckless

Frank is appalled

His sons nursery has called to ask where little Max is

I loved it' Rebecca Netley

A man throws himself to his death from the oldest inhabited place on the face of the earth

making it clear that the Mafia were there before and are there still

which charts the surreal and Kafkaesque history of the comics industry over the last seventy-five years through several sometimes-naive and sometimes-maniacal people rising and falling on its career ladders

Caroline has reawoken something in Mr Shaw that had seemed lost

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LONGLISTED FOR THE FOLIO PRIZE 2015

A powerful elegy to the idiocies and intimacies of family love

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