* Lead title A warm, humane, and sharply observed tale of small town life that is by equal turns hilarious and moving. * Successful review coverage and widespread acclaim in hardback as one of the funniest novels of the year. * Includes an illuminating PS section with an exclusive interview with Sansom and new essay on the book.
Ian Sansom is the author of Paper: An Elegy and the Mobile Library Mystery series of novels. He is also a frequent contributor to the Guardian and the London Review of Books, and a regular broadcaster on BBC Radio 3 and Radio 4. The Sussex Murders is the fifth in his County Guide series, following The Norfolk Mystery, Death in Devon, Westmorland Alone and Essex Poison.
'The tone is part elegy, part satire, part howl and very, very funny. I laughed more times than I can remember over a novel for years ... Ring Road is well-observed and endlessly inventive, with all the messiness of a real place. Sansom's deadpan voice throws up jokes on every page.' Observer 'Sansom has a talent for demonstrating how the fantastic can grown quite naturally out of the familiar .. Few books published these days can fairly be described as charming and fewer still are the product of so generous an intelligence ... It's mellow, intelligent and very funny, a perfect antidote for melancholy.' Michael Moorcok, Guardian 'There is something fearless in the gaze Sansom turns on banality, and this novel is, in the end, a surprisingly gripping feat of coming to terms with what ordinary life is like.' TLS 'A wonderfully comic novel.' Daily Mail
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