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Synopsis
In a world where cats and dogs act like people, absurdity reigns supreme.
Bedlam threatens to engulf the world—unless Oscar can stop it, which he’s willing to try, provided he has an enormous breakfast first.
When the Tremblees, Arabesque’s ambitious aide d’camp, stumbles across a translation of an ancient language revealing the existence of a fabled stone, he vows to find it for greed and vengeance.
With a dead dog stuck to a car bonnet, some burst luggage, a blind bus driver and an enormous number of olives, Oscar Teabag-Dooven, his reluctant colleague Meesha and the Tieress of Arabesque race to prevent the Tremblees from plunging the world back into the Era of Bedlam, a terrifying chaos that plagued the land a thousand years ago.
Featuring stolen hearses, demolished cafés and a mad dash across Arabesque, this ludicrous journey pits intuition against ambition, where only the wildest plans stand a chance.
Welcome to the New Fable fiction genre, where fluffy just got dangerous.
“Corfield blurs the boundary between rubbish and garbage, and does justice to neither.” - Aiden White, Barrington Points Lighthouse Keeper.
“The plot is only held together by the book’s tangled and convoluted sentences.” - Tiffany Parlek, Mortal Goddess.
“A two-in-the-morning page turner, but only because each one’s so hard to get through.” – Pannel Norbit, Curator of Exotic Fungal Infections.
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Story Elements
Setting
| Geography: | Mythological Realm |
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| Realism: | World is similar to ours, but plot elements involve fantasy or magic |
| Setting Type: | Wilderness/Desert/Other outdoors |
| Time Period: | 1960 - 1969 |
Main Character
| Age: | Young Adult |
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| Gender: | Male |
| Race: | Animal |
| Religion: | Irrelevant |
| Sexual Preference: | Irrelevant or N/A |
Styles & Themes
| Humor: | Humor throughout |
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| Inspires Reader to Feel: | Nostalgic/Happy |
| Mysteries & Puzzles: | Significant mystery(ies) are core to driving the story |
| Pacing: | Time to savor, deliberate |
| Physical Action: | Frequent action, driven by threat to safety or life by antagonist(s) |
| Political/Social Commentary: | Politics play a minor role |
| Romance: | Minor romance, not a significant story driver |
| Genre | Fantasy |
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About the author
Thomas Corfield
Thomas Corfield was born in London several years ago, definitely before last Thursday. This was a good year for all concerned, and for him in particular, because without it, later years would mean little. He owes a lot to that first year and now lives because of it in undisclosed locations after successfully absconding from probation. Although he finds making friends difficult, this is only because no one likes him, including his mother, who didn’t bother giving him a name until he was nine. His solicitor describes him as having an allergy to apostrophes and an aversion to punctuation that borders on pathological, which makes the popularity of his books all the more remarkable—at least it would if there was any. But there isn’t, so it doesn’t. Specialising in New Fable and dark humour, his books have spawned a cult series and two best-sellers, winning the Huffington Waste Paper Prize and a nomination for the Kudos Fiction Award. His narrated Cinematic Audiobooks have received acclaim from both sides of the Atlantic, cultivating an audience that positively affects his self-esteem. He was recently interviewed in Joomag’s Meals of Food magazine, which didn’t help anyone. He also has a PhD in Forensic Odontology, which, on occasion, has.
