Given to me unregistered by LyzzyBee, who didn't like it but thought I might.

Blurb:
Globe-trotting Pewter Stapleton is most at home in airports. He sends last-minute postcards worldwide and misses his flights. From childhood on the volcanic island of St Caesare to teenage days studying in Ladbroke Grove, he's now a university professor in Sheffield. Teased by his friends and rivals for his "harem" of students, he books a flight to Mozambique: his mission to track down the mysterious Colin Retford.

About the author (from Wikipedia):
Edward Archie Markham (1 October 1939 – 23 March 2008) was a Montserratian poet, playwright, novelist and academic. He moved to the United Kingdom in 1956, where he remained for most of his life, writing as well as teaching at various academic institutions. He was known for writing subtle, witty and intelligent poetry, which refused to conform to the conventions, and stereotypes, of British and Caribbean poetry alike.

The blurb on the back of this book is slightly misleading: It suggests a jolly adventure, not discussions and digressions. Normally I wouldn't have a problem with this, but the author's voice failed to engage me. It all seems like one long private joke.

Gave up halfway through. To be sent to eicuthbertson in Canada shortly.

On its way to eicuthbertson by surface mail. Hope you enjoy it!

Just received. Thank you! And thanks for the great card too.

Found this a strange book. Never seemed to go anywhere in the literary sense. Unsettling really...

Releasing at Word Vancouver at Library Square, Sunday, September 27th - all day.

FREE BOOKS at the Lower Mainland Bookcrossing Meetup Group's exhibit (P16) in the Library's Concourse.

VPL Central Branch -
350 West Georgia Street
Vancouver, B.C. V6B 6B1