1. Skippy Dies by Paul Murray. I loved this book. I read it in a very thick volume, and it was published in a box as three books for a while. It is now in a surprisingly thin single volume, of well over 600 pages. It feels dense when you pick it up, and it is.
2. Parrot and Olivier in America. I love Peter Carey and I've been waiting for this in paperback. It is appreciably - a good fifth - thicker than Skippy Dies, but it's about fifty pages shorter. It could have been much thinner, too - it has really quite large print and a lot of white space on the paper.
Honestly, have a look at this in bookshops. Honestly, it's fun. Honestly. (Rule of three.)
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Today's Telegraph:
"The insurance centre worker, who is six foot tall and weighs 13 stone, believes the fox mistook him for a small creature like a water vole or a rabbit."
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/earthnews/8450736/Sleeping-fisherman-in-furry-deer-hunter-hat-bitten-by-fox.html
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