Product Description

When Ariel Manto uncovers a copy of The End of Mr. Y in a second-hand bookshop, she can't believe her eyes. She knows enough about its author, the outlandish Victorian scientist Thomas Lumas, to know that copies are exceedingly rare. And, some say, cursed. With Mr. Y under her arm, Ariel finds herself thrust into a thrilling adventure of love, sex, death and time-travel.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #2531 in Books
• Published on: 2008-06-12
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 396 pages

Observer
Thomas carries her readers through her wilder flights

Sunday Times
'Thomas pulls off this intellectual rollercoaster of a novel with dry humour and panache'

Sunday Herald
'Enjoyable bunkum, as brainy as it is fantastical...Thomas has produced a contemporary fantasy novel worth reading.'

Customer Reviews

Possibly the best book I've ever read.
When I first saw this book I picked it up, open a random page and read one sentence, and then I was hooked.
Everything about this book is great but I think my favourite thing is that it is an intelligent book and that really draws you in.

I won't write a full review of this book as just about everything has been covered in other reviews, however I will urge you to give this book a go because if you like it, you will love it.

This makes you think about your very existence
This book most certainly was not what I expected on reading the first chapter, this is no chick-lit novel to be skim read on a beach but an insight into philosophy which -if read slowly and in a quiet room - really makes sense.

For those of you who are fed up with cliche'd novels that have no substance or bearing on our own lives then this is one that makes you start to question the very essence of our being which at a time of rocky capitalism and the fruition of experiments designed to prove the 'Big Bang'theory is a welcome starting position.

For those reviewers who have decided this is far too complicated to read I think you should stick to Barbara Cartland and leave books like this to those who appreciate enlightenment and imagination over tedious office romances anyday.

who could resist reading the cursed book?
dont know anything about the author, except she has a really bad name..and cant deny it put me off slightly..but the book, well, sorry to disagree with another reviewer, but here i think you can tell the book by its cover. its stylish, has a good title, brilliant marketing, and its a bit mysterious. a little like the box in hellraiser, you want to pick this up and open it. its got some of my favourites..philosophy, religion, quantum physics and mind altering liquids, and how they all co-relate through language.
would i drink the drink and lie staring a the black spot...you bet!
wouldnt you?