April 2013 Book of the Month.
Longlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2012
This is a slickly written farce of mistaken identity set on a sun-drenched Greek Island which is hosting a ‘scientific conference’. In a recent Guardian interview Michael said of the book ‘'It had been in my mind for a while. Every time I arrived at an airport and saw the line of people holding up cards, I thought: "What would happen if I went up to one of them? How far would I get?".
Witty, laugh out loud funny and just a delicious treat, this book is not to be missed.
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On the sunlit Greek island of Skios, the Fred Toppler Foundation's annual lecture is to be given by Dr Norman Wilfred, the world-famous authority on the scientific organisation of science. He turns out to be surprisingly young and charming - not at all the intimidating figure they had been expecting. The Foundation's guests are soon eating out of his hand. So, even sooner, is Nikki, the attractive and efficient organiser. Meanwhile, in a remote villa at the other end of the island, Nikki's old school-friend Georgie waits for the notorious chancer she has rashly agreed to go on holiday with, and who has only too characteristically failed to turn up. Trapped in the villa with her, by an unfortunate chain of misadventure, is a balding old gent called Dr Norman Wilfred, who has lost his whereabouts, his luggage, his temper and increasingly all normal sense of reality - everything he possesses apart from the flyblown text of a well-travelled lecture on the scientific organisation of science...
Skios features in the following genres: Modern and Contemporary Fiction, eBooks of the Month, Books of the Month, General Fiction, Fiction, Romance / Relationship Stories, Recommendations
Skios is available in Paperback, Hardback, Ebook
Skios was written by Michael Frayn and published by Faber and Faber
Skios has 278 pages
£8.99
