All Quiet on the Orient Express : A Novel (Paperback)

from olliesmith160

A dark, disturbing and incredibly funny book. The story unfolds at the end of the tourist season in a holiday resort in England. Amongst the monotonous motions of village life a lone traveller finds himself being enveloped by rural existence. Gradually the village tightens its grip on him, leavin...

from olliesmith160

A dark, disturbing and incredibly funny book. The story unfolds at the end of the tourist season in a holiday resort in England. Amongst the monotonous motions of village life a lone traveller finds himself being enveloped by rural existence. Gradually the village tightens its grip on him, leavin...

from gaskella

This is another black comedy of the highest order from a master of novels about men and their work. It's Mills' second book, the third I've read, and the best yet for me. We meet a man and his motorcycle, who are camping in the Lake District as a prelude to going off the India. It's just about th...

from nog

Not quite as excellent as his first book, but still quite good. I will keep going with Mills, but I worry that his schtick will get old. Still, this one has another slightly unsettling but delicious ending.

from ParadisePorch

I read this book to earn 30(!) points in Semi-Charmed's Summer Reading Challenge in the category of a book by an author born in my birth year (1954). It was my introduction to Mills. The protagonist in this work is an itinerant handyman who lands in an Lakes district (England) campground at the e...