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  • Earth, Air, Fire and Custard

  • By: Tom Holt
  • Narrated by: Ray Sawyer
  • Length: 19 hrs and 6 mins
  • 4.1 out of 5 stars (26 ratings)

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Earth, Air, Fire and Custard

By: Tom Holt
Narrated by: Ray Sawyer
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Publisher's summary

J.W. Wells seemed to be a respectable establishment, but the company now paying Paul Carpenter's salary is in fact a deeply sinister organisation with a mighty peculiar management team. Paul thought he was getting the hang of it (particularly when he fell head over heels for his strangely alluring colleague Sophie), but death is never far away when you work at J.W. Wells, unlike the stapler - that's always going AWOL. Our love-struck hero is about to discover that custard is definitely in the eye of the beholder. And that it really stings.

Tom Holt's exceedingly comic fantasies are populated with evil goblins, annoying sprites, and people like us. However, it's not always possible to tell the difference.

©2005 The One Reluctant Lemming Co. Ltd (P)2005 Isis Publishing Ltd
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Critic reviews

"Uniquely twisted … cracking gags." (Rob Grant, The Guardian)
"Frantically wacky and wilfully confusing…. gratifyingly clever and very amusing." (Mail on Sunday)
"Frothy, fast and funny." ( cotland on Sunday)

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Entertainingly nuts

Another totally off the wall story with a serious undertone.

I found it amusing rather than outright comical and the reader was on top form.

It was probably just a tad too long.

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