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Beginners Guide to Breaking and Entering [Minkštas viršelis]

3.92/5 (2082 ratings by Goodreads)
  • Formatas: Paperback / softback, 464 pages, aukštis x plotis x storis: 199x131x29 mm, weight: 328 g
  • Išleidimo metai: 22-May-2025
  • Leidėjas: Penguin (Cornerstone)
  • ISBN-10: 1804941239
  • ISBN-13: 9781804941232
Kitos knygos pagal šią temą:
  • Formatas: Paperback / softback, 464 pages, aukštis x plotis x storis: 199x131x29 mm, weight: 328 g
  • Išleidimo metai: 22-May-2025
  • Leidėjas: Penguin (Cornerstone)
  • ISBN-10: 1804941239
  • ISBN-13: 9781804941232
Kitos knygos pagal šią temą:
Property might be theft. But the housing market is murder . . . A Beginner's Guide to Breaking and Entering is a gripping thriller about what it's like to be young, skilled, unemployed - and on the run.

'A comic delight' Financial Times

'A thoroughly entertaining mix of whodunnit, social satire and a cunningly smuggled-in love story' Mail on Sunday

'Laugh out loud funny, surprising, shocking, thought provoking ... Loved it' The Times

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Property might be theft. But the housing market is murder.

My name is Al. I live in wealthy people's second homes while their real owners are away.

I dont rob them, I dont damage anything Im more an unofficial house-sitter than an actual criminal.

Life is good.

Or it was - until last night, when my friends and I broke into the wrong place, on the wrong day, and someone wound up dead.

And now now were in a great deal of trouble.

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Praise for A Beginner's Guide to Breaking and Entering . . .

'A propulsive plot, an ingenious narrator and lashings of intrigue' Guardian

'Its laugh-out-loud funny, proceeding at a pace that makes it almost impossible to put down.' Sunday Times

'Fantastic' Zoe Ball

'Madly fun and exciting' Lisa Jewell

Who knew murder could be so funny. A joyous read from start to finish. I loved it! Clare Mackintosh

'Legit brilliant, FUN and FUNNY and I couldnt recommend it more' Stevie Martin

Dark, funny, and deeply twisted' Val McDermid

'Witty, dazzling and incredibly addictive' Jenny Colgan

A bloody brilliant, fantastic book . . . Im bereft now Ive finished it Philippa Perry

[ Andrew Hunter Murray] has written something so funny and clever, you will want to give him a badge. Cariad Lloyd

'Tremendous fun: a quirky, gripping and insightful novel that kept me reading late into the night.' Elizabeth Macneal

This is a giddy, addictive thrill ride of a book - who knew accidental espionage was so much fun !' Daisy Buchanan

'An excellent pacy caper Professor Sophie Ratcliffe

'Tremendous fun: a quirky, gripping and insightful novel that kept me reading late into the night.' Elizabeth Macneal

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Five stars for A Beginner's Guide to Breaking and Entering . . .

'I just didn't want this to end. The narrator's voice is very, very engaging: a little cynical, very witty and all round jolly good fun' 'It has some brilliantly written characters and the plot keeps you engaged throughout' 'I was gripped to the very end' 'Great fun, fast paced and quirkily written'

Recenzijos

Hilarious * Daily Mail * Smart, satirical, knowledgable, accurate, punchy, laugh out loud funny, surprising, shocking, thought provoking. Lovely short chapters. Loved it * Matt Chorley, The Times * Hugely entertainingthe novel is politically astute, gradually revealing a scam involving property and international money laundering. Its laugh-out-loud funny, proceeding at a pace that makes it almost impossible to put down. * Sunday Times * A propulsive plot, an ingenious narrator and lashings of intrigue make this a genuine and thoroughly enjoyable page-turner * Guardian * The plot is corset-tight and lavish with its surprises. An amusing crime capera delight * Strong Words Magazine * What drives Hunter Murrays chunky crime thriller along is Als idiosyncratic, comic narrative voice. As a result, its fun to spend time with him, even when its clear hes not necessarily a great human being * Herald Scotland * Filled with humour, shocks, love and hate and a few handy tips on how to beat the housing crisis Funny, thoughtful and all-round entertaining * Press Association * In the delicious A Beginners Guide to Breaking and Entering, a hapless housebreaker and his fellow miscreants must solve a murder before the police arrest them; its a comic delight. * Financial Times *

Andrew Hunter Murray is a writer, broadcaster and comedian. He co-hosts the award-winning podcast No Such Thing As A Fish, which has received 500 million downloads and toured the world. He also writes jokes and journalism for Private Eye magazine, hosts the Eye's podcast Page 94, presents BBC Radio 4s Friday night comedy The Naked Week, and spent 14 years writing BBC2s QI.

His first novel, The Last Day, was a Sunday Times Top 10 bestseller, and one of the top 10 fiction debuts of 2020; his second, The Sanctuary, was a Waterstones Thriller of the Month; and his third, A Beginners Guide to Breaking and Entering, was shortlisted for the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for comic literature.

Andrew lives in London, in a house which largely belongs to someone else (Barclays).