Experts in a Dying Field'Offbeat, ironic, humane and hilarious, Experts in a Dying Field is an earworm you'll be humming along to for a long time to come.' PAUL MURRAY 'A wonderfully evocative novel from a major storytelling talent.' JOSEPH O'CONNOR 'Just pure joy and pure heartbreak and GENUINE LAUGHS all the way through. I cried a few times too.' MARINA HYDE The Heathens thought of themselves as 'the 1000th best band of all time'. Then their tour van crashed, and one of

snakes and wolves

she spent her childhood amidst Oxford's Gothic beauty and later participated in military service in Italy and the Middle East

and nobody

Half beauty

Isabel's lazy

big-hearted and down-to-earth chefs

Sarah Langford is a barrister

Winner of the 2013 Nebula Award for Best Novel

even racist

Each of the images is an invitation to dream

vast oceans and far-distant planets and introduce them to a remarkable robot destined to gather together this disparate crew

From the pattern of a puddle to the length of a shadow