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'Parry knocks it out of the park . . . Just plain wonderful' Kirkus
For his entire life, Charley Sutherland has concealed a magical ability he can't quite control: he can bring characters from books into the real world. His older brother, Rob - a young lawyer with an utterly…
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As someone who reads a lot of fantasy, I'm always excited to discover a truly original novel. Jasper Fforde's books are about Thursday Next, a woman who can go into books. H.G. Parry's Charley Sutherland can read ficitional characters such as Sherlock Holmes and Charles Dickens into the real world. Accidentally summoning repellant Uriah Heep into modern Wellington, New Zealand, doesn't go well for Charley or his older brother Rob, who doesn't have Charley's magical ability. But this story is not only about what happens when fictional characters decide to live among us, but about the relationship between Charley and…
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