All Quiet on the Orient Express

Proof copy. 8vo., [vi], 211, [1, blank]pp. Illustrated card covers.

Author's second book. A tragi-comic deadpan novel in which a hapless odd-jobber becomes ensnared in increasingly sinister situations in an 'out-of-season' Lake District campground. Employing a 'deceptively' simple narrative style favouring short sentences, bare description and copious dialogue, Mills's often working-class protagonists try but invariably fail to assert their individual freedom.

"Hilariously surreal. It's a bit like the Coen Brothers directing an Alan Bennett play. Fantastic." –Daily Mirror