By Tom Holt

On Sale: Sep 4, 2012
Page Count: 416 pages
Publisher: Orbit
ISBN-13: 9780316233293

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THE PORTABLE DOOR is the first novel set in the magical offices of J. W. Wells. Now a majorly fantastical movie starring Sam Neill, Christoph Waltz, and Miranda Otto.

“Tom Holt may be the most imaginative satirist to land on our shores since Douglas Adams.” — Christopher Moore, New York Times bestselling author

Starting a new job is always stressful (especially when you don't want one), but when Paul Carpenter arrives at the office of J. W. Wells he has no idea what trouble lies in store. He is about to discover that the apparently respectable establishment now paying his salary is a front for a deeply sinister organization. It seems that half the time his bosses are away with the fairies. But they're not, of course.

They're away with the goblins.

The J.W. Wells & Co. Series:
The Portable Door
In Your Dreams
Earth, Air, Fire and Custard
You Don't Have to Be Evil to Work Here, But It Helps
The Better Mousetrap
May Contain Traces of Magic

Other titles from Tom Holt:
Doughnut
When It's A Jar
The Outsorcerer's Apprentice
The Good, the Bad and the Smug
The Management Style of the Supreme Beings
An Orc on the Wild Side

Holt Writing as K. J. Parker:
Sixteen Ways to Defend a Walled City
How To Rule An Empire and Get Away With It
A Practical Guide to Conquering the World

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"Wacky humour bubbles through the polished narrative ... Holt doesn't skimp on the flashes of brilliance."
SFX
"Uniquely twisted ... cracking gags."
The Guardian
"Dazzling."
Time Out
"Highly amusing ... Eloquently snarky prose."
Publishers Weekly
"Holt is, as usual, absurd, funny, and light-handed enough with the completely ridiculous bits to keep the story moving, assuring that the reader doesn't actually notice how bizarre the story has become, or how tangled the mystery is, until it's nearly done."
Booklist
"A definite must for all fans of comic fantasy."
ENIGMA
"Frothy, fast and funny."
Scotland on Sunday
"Frantically wacky and wilfully confusing ... gratifyingly clever and very amusing."
Mail on Sunday
"Tom Holt's comic fantasy is a great, uplifting read, fit to grace any reader's book collection."
Waterstones Books Quarterly

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Tom Holt

About the Author

Tom Holt was born in London in 1961. At Oxford he studied bar billiards, ancient Greek agriculture and the care and feeding of small, temperamental Japanese motorcycle engines interests which led him, perhaps inevitably, to qualify as a solicitor and emigrate to Somerset, where he specialized in death and taxes for seven years before going straight in 1995. He lives in Chard, Somerset, with his wife and daughter.

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