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The Portable Door
Contributors
By Tom Holt
Formats and Prices
- On Sale
- Sep 4, 2012
- Page Count
- 416 pages
- Publisher
- Orbit
- ISBN-13
- 9780316233293
Price
$5.99Format
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“Tom Holt may be the most imaginative satirist to land on our shores since Douglas Adams.” — Christopher Moore, New York Times bestselling author
They're away with the goblins.
The J.W. Wells & Co. Series:
The Portable Door
In Your Dreams
Earth, Air, Fire and Custard
You Don't Have to Be Evil to Work Here, But It Helps
The Better Mousetrap
May Contain Traces of Magic
Other titles from Tom Holt:
Doughnut
When It's A Jar
The Outsorcerer's Apprentice
The Good, the Bad and the Smug
The Management Style of the Supreme Beings
An Orc on the Wild Side
Holt Writing as K. J. Parker:
Sixteen Ways to Defend a Walled City
How To Rule An Empire and Get Away With It
A Practical Guide to Conquering the World
Genre:
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"Wacky humour bubbles through the polished narrative ... Holt doesn't skimp on the flashes of brilliance."SFX
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"Uniquely twisted ... cracking gags."The Guardian
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"Dazzling."Time Out
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"Highly amusing ... Eloquently snarky prose."Publishers Weekly
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"Holt is, as usual, absurd, funny, and light-handed enough with the completely ridiculous bits to keep the story moving, assuring that the reader doesn't actually notice how bizarre the story has become, or how tangled the mystery is, until it's nearly done."Booklist
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"A definite must for all fans of comic fantasy."ENIGMA
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"Frothy, fast and funny."Scotland on Sunday
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"Frantically wacky and wilfully confusing ... gratifyingly clever and very amusing."Mail on Sunday
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"Tom Holt's comic fantasy is a great, uplifting read, fit to grace any reader's book collection."Waterstones Books Quarterly
