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From the Man Booker Prize shortlisted author of Darkmans comes a comic epistolary novel of startling originality and wit. Reading other people's letters is always a guilty pleasure. But for PC Roger Topping contemplating a cache of 27 undelivered missives, retrieved from a back alley in Skipton, it's a job of work. The quaint village of Burley Cross has been plunged into turmoil by the theft of the contents of its postbox, and no-one is above suspicion. Yet Topping's investigation into the curtain-twitching lives of the eminently respectable Burley Cross residents not only uncovers the dark underbelly of his beat, but reveals a hitherto unknown strength of character buried deep within the young flatfoot. The denizens of Burley Cross inhabit a world of epic pettiness, where secrets are the currency. From complaints about dog shit to passive-aggressive fanmail, from biblical amateur dramatics to an Auction of Promises that goes staggeringly wrong, Nicola Barker's epistolary novel is a work of immense comic range. Irresistibly mischievous, Burley Cross Postbox Theft is Alan Bennett with added Tamiflu, sex-therapy and cheap vodka.

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Book category Books in English Fiction & related items Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

• Full title: Burley Cross Postbox Theft
• Author: Nicola Barker
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 352
• EAN: 9780007356287
• ISBN: 0007356285
• ID: 04353424
• Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
• Weight: 386 g
• Dimensions: 196 × 133 × 32 mm
• Date of publishing: 28. April 2011

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