The End of the World Is Flat

The End of the World Is Flat
Simon Edge
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Paperback
h198 x 129mm - 304pg
16 Aug 2021 UK
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9781785632402
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Mel Winterbourne is the founder of a small map-making charity called the Orange Peel Foundation. After it achieves all its modest aims, Orange Peel attracts the attention of glamorous tech billionaire Joey Talavera, who ousts Mel and hijacks the charity for his own ends: to convince the world the earth is flat. Her ruthless young successor, Shane Foxley, embraces his new mission, using the dark arts to turn science on its head. Exploiting modern distaste for Christopher Columbus, he persuades a generation of idealists that old-style ' globularism' is hateful. Teachers, journalists and airline pilots face ruin if they reject his new ' True Earth' orthodoxy. For Mel and a band of diehard heretics - vilified as ' True-Earth Rejecting Globularists' (Tergs) - something must be done. Can they thwart Orange Peel and Talavera before insanity takes over? What if the solution to the whole problem lies somewhere in the 15th century? Using his trademark mix of history and satire to poke fun at modern foibles, Simon Edge is at his razor-sharp best in a caper that may be more relevant than you think.
' Anyone for Edmund? is gripping, funny and richly entertaining. This is not only a compelling read, but also a story grounded in real history and the genuine questions of national identity that are still thrown up by the legacies of medieval patron saints - and St Edmund in particular. While this book is fiction, at the heart of it is a truth every historian knows: the past is very much alive' --Dr Francis Young, author of Edmund: In Search of England' s Lost King For A Right Royal Face Off ' The way in which the eighteenth century is rendered in this novel is witty, observant and joyously gossipy. The characterisations are sharp and Simon Edge has the painter' s eye for detail. It is paced beautifully and nothing is wasted' NB magazine ' The more of Simon Edge you read, the more you realise that every element of his stories is hand-selected and glued to the bigger picture - it' s whimsical, farce-like. . . scrapbooky, in the best possible way' --Buzz Magazine For Anyone for Edmund: ' I loved this smart and divinely wry book, with its perfect marriage of archaeology, patron sainthood, and 10 Downing Street dirt. Has there ever been a more delightfully cynical political hack than Mark Price, or a more narratively rewarding neurotic prime minister than Marina Spencer? Long live them both! What a terrific eye and ear is at work here!' --Elinor Lipman
Simon Edge was born in Chester and read philosophy at Cambridge University. He was editor of the pioneering London paper Capital Gay before becoming a gossip columnist on the Evening Standard and then a feature writer on the Daily Express, where he was also a theatre critic for many years. He has an MA in Creative Writing from City University, London, where he also taught literary criticism. He is the author of four novels: The Hopkins Conundrum, longlisted for the Waverton Good Read Award, The Hurtle of Hell, A Right Royal Face-Off, and Anyone for Edmund? .
Status: No local stock, title imported to order
ISBN-13: 9781785632402
Published: 16 Aug 2021
Published In: United Kingdom
Imprint: Lightning Books
Publisher: Eye Books
Format: Paperback
Height: 198mm
Width: 129mm
Pages: 304

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