{"product_id":"9781787333956","title":"Aristotle's Cuttlefish","description":"\u003cp\u003eA story about mislaid umbrellas, questionable scientific theories and unlikely friendship - from the author of Flake, winner of the 2020 Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWhere do all the lost things go? \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn Dobbiston, they'll likely end up in the care of Mr Daniels, the long-time custodian of the local lost property office. Somewhere deep in the bowels of the town council's shabby premises he has spent a lifetime quietly cataloguing the carelessness of his fellow Dobbiston residents.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eBut when something unexpected interrupts his routine, Mr Daniels is forced to embrace a little bit of life's chaos.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eTold through Lost Property Office vignettes - a snooker cue love story, a granny's tea cosy and a kid's toy on an intergalactic adventure - local histories are elevated to the momentous and profound, drawn with playful nostalgia and Dooley's deadpan wit.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003ePRAISE FOR FLAKE \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e'A joy... think of Joff Winterhart with a cone and a squirt of strawberry sauce' Herald Scotland\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e'(A) wonderful, elegiac debut... full of irresistible puns' Observer\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e'A cheerfully nostalgic trip into a north western english town of pub quizzes, crazy golf and crosswords' Guardian\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Jonathan Cape","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52629176090935,"sku":"00000_00000_00000_00000","price":232.91,"currency_code":"MYR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0962\/3548\/7543\/files\/9781787333956-1.jpg?v=1783491685","url":"https:\/\/kinokuniya.com.my\/products\/9781787333956","provider":"Books Kinokuniya Malaysia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}