The World Is Badly Made: The Second Velvet Paw of Asquith Novel
Thomas Norman Corfield
Paperback
(Panda Books Australia, June 27, 2016)
In which bedlam threatens to envelope the world, unless Oscar Tebag-Dooven can do something about it, which he’s willing to consider, providing it involves an enormous breakfast first. When the palace of Arabesque’s aide de camp, a cat named the Tremblees, stumbles upon a translation of an ancient language that reveals the existence of a fabled stone, he vows to find it for reasons of greed and vengeance. With a dead dog stuck to a car bonnet, a blind bus driver and an enormous number of olives, it becomes a race for Oscar, his colleague Meesha and the Tieress of Arabesque to prevent the Tremblees plunging Arabesque back into the Era of Bedlam, a horror that plagued the land a thousand years ago. “Corfield blurs the boundary between rubbish and garbage, and does justice to neither.” - Aiden White, Barrington Points Lighthouse Keeper. “A two-in-the-morning page turner, but only because each one’s so hard to get through.” - Pannel Norbit, Curator of Exotic Fungal Infections. “A two-in-the-morning page turner, but only because each one’s so hard to get through.” – Pannel Norbit, Curator of Exotic Fungal Infections.