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Christopher Moore

A Dirty Job

The Lust Lizard of Melancholy Cove

Lamb

Fluke: Or, I Know Why the Winged Whale Sings

About the Author

Bibliography

British Pbk Original - Orbit (2007)

A Dirty Job
It's a dirty job. But hey, somebody's gotta do it.
Charlie Asher is a pretty normal guy. Perhaps a little more of a Beta than an Alpha Male, but he makes a good living and has a pretty wife who’s currently in hospital about to have their first child, so life is, on the whole, good.
But normal service is about to be interrupted. As Charlie prepares to go home after the birth, he sees a strange man in mint-green golf wear at his wife’s hospital bedside - a man who claims that no one should be able to see him. But see him Charlie does, and from here on out, things get really weird...
People start dropping dead around him, giant ravens perch on his building, and it seems that everywhere he goes, a dark presence whispers to him from under the streets. Strange names start appearing on his nightstand notepad, and before he knows it, those people end up dead, too. Yep, it seems that Charlie Asher has been recruited for a new job, an unpleasant but utterly necessary one: Death.
'Dizzyingly inventive and hypnotically engaging. A Dirty Job is… like no other book I've ever read' Gregory Maguire, author of Wicked
'One of Moore's funniest capers yet' Kirkus Reviews

British Pbk Original - Orbit (2007)

The Lust Lizard of Melancholy Cove
Welcome to the world of Christopher Moore
Warning: may cause unnatural urges The town psychiatrist has decided to switch everybody in Pine Cove, California, from their normal antidepressants to placebos, so naturally - well, to be accurate, artificially -business is booming at the local blues bar. Trouble is, those lonely slide-guitar notes have also attracted a colossal sea beast named Steve with, shall we say, a thing for explosive oil tanker trucks.
Suddenly, morose Pine Cove turns libidinous and is hit by a mysterious crime wave, and a beleaguered constable has to fight off his own gonzo appetites to find out what’s wrong and what, if anything, to do about it.
‘Reminiscent of Vonnegut and Douglas Adams’ The Philadelphia Inquirer
‘Deft and funny’ The New York Times Book Review
‘If there’s a funnier writer out there step forward’ Playboy

Paperback - Orbit (2007)

Lamb
The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal,
The birth of Jesus has been well chronicled, as have his glorious teachings, acts and divine sacrifice after his thirtieth birthday. But no one knows about the early life of the Son of God, the missing years - except Biff, the Messiah’s best bud, who has been resurrected to fill us in on what really happened.
Verily, the Story Biff has to tell is a miraculous one, filled with remarkable journeys, magic, healings, kung fu, corpse reanimations, demons and hot babes. But even the considerable wiles and devotion of the Saviour’s pal may not be enough to divert Joshua from his tragic destiny. Of course, there’s no one who loves Josh more - except maybe ‘Maggie’, Mary of Magdala - and Biff isn’t about to let his extraordinary pal suffer and ascend without a fight.
And that’s the gospel truth.
`Although many will find something offensive in this novel ... they will find it simply impossible not to laugh’ Booklist
`Christopher Moore’s impish, madcap addition to the New Testament ... simultaneously addressing matters of ultimate concern while wallowing in the broadest possible slapstick’ Washington Post

Paperback - Orbit (2007)

Fluke: Or, I Know Why the Winged Whale Sings
Just why do humpback whales sing?
That’s the question that has marine behavioural biologist Nate Quinn and his crew prodding, charting, recording, and photographing very big, wet, grey marine mammals. Until the extraordinary day when a whale lifts its tail into the air to display a rather rude message, spelled out in foot-high letters: BITE ME.
Trouble is, Nate’s beginning to wonder if he hasn’t spent just a little too much time in the sun. ‘Cause no one else on his team saw a thing - not his long-time partner, Clay Demodocus; not their saucy young research assistant; not even the spliff-puffing white-boy Rastaman Kona (ne Preston Applebaum). But later, when a roll of film returns from the lab missing the crucial tail shot - and his research facility is trashed - Nate realizes something very fishy indeed is going on.
`Humour that seamlessly blends lunacy with larceny … habit forming zaniness’ USA Today
`Tautly written with a zest for the absurd and unpredictable’ The New York Times Book Review
'This novel is all ambergris, no blubber' Washington Post Book World

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Bibliography
N.B. dates and publishers in dark red indicate British First Editions. Dates and publishers in black indicate recent reprints.

A Dirty Job (Orbit Pbk, 2007)

The Lust Lizard of Melancholy Cove (Orbit Pbk, 2007)

Lamb ( 2002) Orbit Pbk Aug 07

Bloodsucking Fiends

The Stupidest Angel: A Heartwarming Tale of Christmas Terror, Version 2.0

Coyote Blue

Fluke: Or, I Know Why the Winged Whale Sings ( 2003) Orbit Pbk Sep 07

Island of the Sequined Love Nun