The Bastard Wonderland - Tapa blanda

"Imagine "Around The World In 80 Days" crossed with "Steptoe and Son" and you're about a third of the way there. It's about family, war, home, God, love, country and mushy peas. It's hilarious and sad and profound and completely absorbing. Like all brilliant art, it creates a convincing world and allows you to wander around inside. Get The Bastard Wonderland, it will make your life better. --Kardomah94

Lee Harrison was born in KingstonUpon-Hull, where fantastical stories and daft thoughts helped him hide from real life until Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom inspired him to study Religion at Lancaster University. He negotiated his return to Hull with some short stories that were published by Route before returning to his fantasy master-plan to write The Bastard Wonderland, which he describes as a kitchen sink epic .

THE BASTARD WONDERLAND is a novel of startling originality. Heartfelt and brutal, sympathetic and strange, Lee Harrison s début novel stands head and shoulders above the rest in the crowd and, in William Warboys Jr, Harrison has created a hero for our times: lost and down on his luck, vicious and vacant and decent, trapped by circumstance and always yearning for something more. THE BASTARD WONDERLAND might just be one of the great 21st century novels; that it takes place in an imaginary otherworld matters not one bit. This, finally, is where fantasy gets modern.

Robert Dinsdale