To Be Continued

SHORTLISTED FOR THE WODEHOUSE COMIC FICTION PRIZE 2017 An utterly mad, entirely heart-warming Highland adventure from the Man Booker-longlisted author of And the Land lay Still Douglas is fifty years old - he's just lost his job, been kicked out by his girlfriend and moved back into his dad's house. Just when things are starting to look hopeless, he makes a very unexpected new friend: a talking toad. Mungo is a wise-cracking, straight-talking, no-nonsense kind of toad - and he is determined to get Douglas's life back on track. Together, man and beast undertake a madcap quest to the distant Highlands, hot on the trail of a hundred-year-old granny, a beautiful Greek nymph, a split-personality alcoholic/teetotaller, a reluctant whisky-smuggler, and the elusive glimmer of redemption . . .

Product details

• Authors: James Robertson
• Publisher: Penguin Books Uk
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 04.05.2017
• EAN: 9780241146859
• ISBN: 978-0-241-14685-9
• No. of pages: 336
• Dimensions: 139 mm x 277 mm x 22 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Fiction > Narrative literature > Contemporary literature (from 1945); FICTION / Fantasy / General, FICTION / Humorous / Black Humor, Northern Scotland, Highlands and Islands, Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary