Author:Robert Rankin
The Ministry of Serendipity at Mornington Crescent runs everything. And that is everything.When the Ministry learns of a spacecraft that crashed four thousand years ago into the Pacific Ocean it sends an élite team of paranormal investigators to recover it. A mad alien thaws out, there is hell and horror all around and thousands flee in terror.
Porrig has inherited a planet, or it might be a bookshop, or it might be a gateway into another world. And Porrig is worried, because he has learned a terrible secret. But if he told people, would they listen? No.
But perhaps they should, because a mad alien has thawed out, there is hell and horror all around and thousands are fleeing in terror. And there is every likelihood of there being a bloody big explosion at the end. Will Porrig manage to do anything about it at all?
'We read Rankin for his exuberant salmagundi of old jokes, myths urban and otherwise, catchphrases, liberatingly crazy ideas, running gags, recurring characters and locations, unreliable autobiogrpahical anecdotes...His impressively individual style means that he becomes funnier the more you read him'
—— Independent'He does for England what Spike Milligan does for Ireland. There can be no higher praise'
—— Mail on SundayDurcan's mastery of tone, his manic confidentiality, his blithe expositions of the seemingly unthinkable, his hypnotic repetitions of what other poets would hardly dare to utter once, all help to give [his work] an air of audacious authority unique in contemporary poetry
—— Brendan Kennnelly , Irish TimesFor him poetry is story-telling and his stories are told in a direct fashion that makes them totally accessible... Paul Durcan's poetry sings
—— Roger McGough , Sunday TribuneLike all first-class comedians, he is deadly serious
—— Terry Eagleton , StandPaul Durcan has a great comic gift
—— Colb Toibin , Sunday Independent‘Morrison’s legacy in commemorating slavery’s survivors will endure and uplift for centuries to come'
—— Aminatta Forna‘Her every word a caress, her every sentence an embrace, her every paragraph, a cupping of her hands around our faces that said: I know you, I see you, we are together’
—— Jesmyn Ward‘I have never read anyone else like her . . . She was an opener of doors, doors that seemed they might always be shut, doors shut so tight they seemed not to be doors at all’
—— Mohsin Hamid‘Her legacy is total excellence . . . she is magnificent, her emotional intelligence is second to none and her bravery was equal to her artistry’
—— Kwame Kwei-Armah‘Morrison almost single-handedly took American fiction forward in the second half of the twentieth century’
—— Caryl Phillips‘[Toni Morrison’s] irreverence was godly’
—— GuardianA beautiful book and it's beautifully written
—— Kit de Waal , Good Housekeeping UKMy favourite book of all time
—— Sareeta Domingo , Good HousekeepingMorrison's stunning trilogy is an evocation of black life over the past four centuries. It defies summary. Completed almost 25 years ago, these novels top anything produced by any American writer including Hemingway, Updike and DeLillo
—— Trevor Phillips , Sunday Times[A] beautiful, haunting novel
—— Stig Abell , Sunday TimesMore than one of Morrison's books could be classed as masterpieces, but this one is famous for a reason: everyone should read it
—— Bernice McFadden, author of SUGAR , Guardian
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