In a city where stories are forbidden, a storyteller takes revenge on the bandit king who removed his tongue. An advisor to the court of Catherine the Great is called upon to investigate a murder in a locked room in which the only suspect is a chess-playing automaton. A Georgian taxidermist invites four London orphans to spend the evening with him, the same evening each and every year. A communist bureaucrat attempts to resurrect his dead son through creative errors in accounting. In a narrative cycle that stretches from ancient Asia Minor to the last days of humanity, The People Factory...

It's the end of the world as we know it, but someone still needs to do the paperwork. Incomprehensible horrors from beyond are going to devour our world but that's no excuse to get all emotional about it. Morag Murray works for the secret government organisation responsible for making sure the apocalypse goes as smoothly and as quietly as possible. In her first week on the job, Morag has to hunt down a man-eating starfish, solve a supernatural murder and, if she's got time, prevent her own inevitable death. The first book in a new comedy series by the creators of 'Clovenhoof', Oddjobs is a...