Bøger af Magnus Mills

We'd only travelled a few miles when I started wondering how I could rid myself of the three sunbathers. This might sound churlish but actually I felt I owed them no debt of gratitude.

When Magnus Mills gives the world a shake, you never know what might fall out of his pockets," proclaims the Los Angeles Times. In his terse new tour de force of a tale, Mills gives history a shake, and you'll never guess what the fallout is. Set at the dawn of the great age of exploration, the era of Shackleton and Perry and Scott, the book presents the adventures of two intrepid teams, both vying to reach the AFP, or Agreed Furthest Point-a worthy, even ennobling cause. The competition is friendly but conditions are extreme. To get through the arid, lifeless landscape, both teams must learn to make sacrifices, sacrifices that will change just about everything.Mills burst on the literary scene a decade ago with The Restraint of Beasts, a novel Thomas Pynchon called a "demented, deadpan-comic wonder." This new work proves that he has become a master storyteller whose books are each "as welcome as a warm bus on a rainy day" (The Oregonian).

SHORTLISTED FOR THE GOLDSMITHS PRIZE 2016'One of Britain's most original, inimitable writers' The Times'The field looks completely wrong now,' she announced, one blustery afternoon. 'It's all gone out of balance'The Great Field lies in the bend of a broad, meandering river. Bounded on three sides by water, on the fourth side it dwindles gradually into wilderness. A handful of tents are scattered far and wide across its immensity. Their flags flutter in the warm breeze, rich with the promise of halcyon days. But more and more people are setting up camp in the lush pastures and with each new arrival life becomes a little more complicated. And when a large and disciplined group arrive from across the river emotions run so high that even a surplus of milk pudding can't soothe ruffled feathers. Change is coming; change that threatens the delicate balance of power in the Great Field.This simultaneously down to earth and surreal fable cements Magnus Mills' status as one of Britain's most original novelists.

'He has no literary precedent, and he also appears to have no imitators. He mines a seam that no one else touches on, every sentence in every book having a Magnus Mills ring to it that no other writer could produce' Independent

'Hilariously surreal. It's a bit like the Coen Brothers directing an Alan Bennett play... Fantastic' Daily Mirror

'A unique talent ... Mills's novels are among the best and most original in recent English fiction' Literary Review

Fencers Tam, Richie and their ever-exasperated English foreman are forced to move from rural Scotland to England for work. After a disastrous start involving a botched fence and an accidental murder, the three move to a damp caravan in Upper Bowland and soon find themselves in direct competition with the sinister Hall Brothers.

A novel that lets you enter the bizarre world of the bus driver, a strange but all too familiar universe in which 'the timetable' and 'the maintenance of headway' are sacred, but where the routes can change with the click of an inspector's fingers.

En mand har bosat sig på en slette i et hus af bølgeblik, langt væk fra andre folk. Her har han det godt, her er fred og ro, og vinden holder ham med selskab. Faktisk kan han ikke forestille sig et bedre sted at være.Hans nærmeste naboer beslutter sig for at følge den karismatiske Michael Hawkins og flytte endnu længere ud. Skal han nu blive i sit hus af bølgeblik eller slutte sig til udflytterne?Magnus Mills har igen skrevet en mærkelig og fascinerende roman, man ikke kan lægge fra sig. Tre mand og en konge er en fortælling om civilisation og utilfredshed, om fællesskab og ensomhed, om hjemmeliv og eventyrlyst, om ledere om medløbere.

Sjak nr. 3, der af anmelderne er blevet sammenlignet med blandt andre Kafka og kaldt både enestående, original, magisk, dyster og fuld af sort humor fortæller historien om Tam og Richie, to skotske arbejdere, der bliver sendt sydpå fra Skotland til England for at bygge et hegn på en afsidesliggende farm, hvor de med smertelig langsomhed graver sig selv dybere og dybere ned i problemer.

En ung mand har planer om at stikke af til Indien på sin motorcykel. Han overnatter på en campingplads, der er ved at lukke for sæsonen. Ved at tilfælde bliver han bedt om at udføre et lille stykke arbejde for den lokale storkapitalist, Tommy Parker, som har flere jern i ilden. Og før han ser sig om, er han i fuld gang med at passe maskiner, male både, save brænde og hjælpe Parkers datter med lektierne. "Magnus Mills skaber sin egen genre ved at gøre det engelske bondeland til et mystisk, mørkt sted, emmende af sladderparanoia, angst og absurd magtspil." - Nikolaj M. Lassen, Weekendavisen"Magnus Mills skriver med satire og sarkasme om livet uden for lands lov og ret. Han sværger til ordknap dialog, som nogle gange er helt Hemingwaysk, hans humor er tør som en tvebak, og hans portrætter er skånselsløse." - Klaus Rothstein, Berlingske Tidende "Intet nyt fra Orientekspressen er en skæg mixture af et krasbørstigt portræt af en rustik virkelighed og en fabel om menneskelig naivitet og det stik modsatte ... Således har Mills igen leveret en velskreven og vedkommende roman."- Bo Tao Michaëlis, Politiken