My family'One of the funniest books I have ever read' HADLEY FREEMAN 'A masterpiece' SATHNAM SANGHERA 'The read of the summer' THE SUNDAY TIMES 'Brilliant ? funny and moving' ADAM KAY

has hired Lowen to complete the remaining books in a successful series his injured wife is unable to finish

and after oblivion

When Mr Luckhurst

and its sophisticated kingdoms had traded with Europeans along the coasts from Senegal down to Angola since the fifteenth century

The novel's characters are an unlikely mix: a mermaid

marriage and children

it's hard to ignore new boy Levi

Since time immemorial

'It is my job to look after my classmates

policies that are either self-serving or don't work

Playing eruditely with and querying structures of narrative

the blind bowman