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 The Case of the Missing Books - Ian Sansom
Description: ISBN 0007206992 / Author: Ian Sansom / Genre: Fiction / Publisher: Fourth Estate / This title introduces Israel Armstrong, one of ... more  The Case of the Missing Books - Ian Sansom ... literature's most unlikely detectives in the first of a series of novels from the author of the critically acclaimed "Ring Road". Israel is an intelligent, shy, passionate, sensitive sort of soul: he's Jewish; he's a vegetarian; he could maybe do with losing a little weight. And he's just arrived in Ireland to take up his first post as a librarian. But the library's been shut down and Israel ends up stranded on the North Antrim coast driving an old mobile library. There's nice scenery, but 15,000 fewer books than there should be. Who on earth steals that many books? How? When would they have time to read them all? And is there anywhere in this godforsaken place where he can get a proper cappuccino and a decent newspaper? Israel wants answers...Newest Review: ... in shut down. Things go from bad to worse as he discovers he is expected to man the old, decrepit mobile library bus ... more ... ('mobile learning centre')and then worserer(?) when he finds out that someone has stolen the 15,000 books that were to go in it! Add to that his fear of Northern Ireland in general and his inability to understand what everyone is saying and suddenly you find a Jewish fish well and truly out of its (holy) water.
It has to be said that there is very little story in this book - man gets new job, man hates new job, man has to uncover (minor) crime in village thanks to small print of job contract and that's your lot - and acts ...more |
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The Case of the Missing Books - Ian Sansom: Steal this book! (817 words)
by david_1967 - written on 25.04.08 (Very useful, 101 readings)
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Having undergone the abject horror that was 'The Death List' for the sake of all you good folk I was in need of some picking up and so turned to a mysterious little number I found nestled away in a dark corner of the library called 'The Case of the Missing Books' by Ian Sansom. Here was an author I had never heard of and a book which, apparently, is the first in a series of stories regarding 'The Mobile Library' - hardly a title to instill hope and excitement into most people but I'm nothing if not valiant and so left the place with it neatly tucked under my arm. Israel Joseph Armstrong is a short, chubby, vegetarian Jew who until recently has worked in a ...
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