William Thacker: 2 books

‘A strange book, but its strangeness is what keeps you turning the pages.’ Jennifer Johnston ** ‘I'm always a sucker for redemption stories but this one is really highly entertaining, life-affirming and - yes - charming. On this evidence, William Thacker is a name you will hear a lot...

There's a problem with Barrow, but it can be fixed. You just need to change the name to Birdseye. Birdseye-in-Furness . . . Miles Platting is pulled from the ruins of a shipwreck into a world in which no one will speak to him. The founder of Lingua Franca—a naming rights agency committed to renaming...