The sequel to Jonas Jonasson’s international bestseller The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and DisappearedThe sequel to Jonas Jonasson’s international bestseller The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and DisappearedIt all begins with a hot air balloon trip and three bottles of champagne. Allan and Julius are ready for some spectacular views, but they’re not expecting to land in the sea and be rescued by a North Korean ship, and they could never have imagined that the captain of the ship would be harbouring a suitcase full of contraband uranium, on a nuclear weapons mission for Kim Jong-un …Soon Allan and Julius are at the centre of a complex diplomatic crisis involving world figures from the Swedish foreign minister to Angela Merkel and President Trump. Things are about to get very complicated …Praise for The Hundred-Year-Old Man:‘A mordantly funny and loopily freewheeling debut novel about ageing disgracefully’ Sunday Times‘Imaginative, laugh-out-loud . . . a brilliant satire on the foibles of mankind’ Daily Telegraph‘Fast-moving and relentlessly sunny’ GuardianIt all begins with a hot air balloon trip and three bottles of champagne. Allan and Julius are ready for some spectacular views, but they’re not expecting to land in the sea and be rescued by a North Korean ship, and they could never have imagined that the captain of the ship would be harbouring a suitcase full of contraband uranium, on a nuclear weapons mission for Kim Jong-un …Soon Allan and Julius are at the centre of a complex diplomatic crisis involving world figures from the Swedish foreign minister to Angela Merkel and President Trump. Things are about to get very complicated …Praise for The Hundred-Year-Old Man:‘A mordantly funny and loopily freewheeling debut novel about ageing disgracefully’ Sunday Times‘Imaginative, laugh-out-loud . . . a brilliant satire on the foibles of mankind’ Daily Telegraph‘Fast-moving and relentlessly sunny’ GuardianJonas Jonasson was a journalist for the Expressen newspaper for many years. He became a media consultant and later on set up a company producing sports and events for Swedish television. He sold his company and moved abroad to work on his first novel. Jonasson now lives on the Swedish island Gotland in the Baltic Sea.• The long-awaited sequel to The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared• The Hundred-Year-Old Man has sold over 600k copies TCM in print alone and was ‘arguably the biggest word-of-mouth literary sensation of the decade’ (Independent)• The loveable centenarian returns here in gloriously funny form to take on the big names of the 21st century – from Kim Jong-un to Angela Merkel to Donald Trump• The Girl Who Saved the King of Sweden has sold 188KTCM in print and Hitman Anders has done 80KTCM to dateCompetition: the girl who saved the king of sweden; hitman anders and the meaning of it all the lido eleanor oliphant is completely fine how to stop time wonder the outsider notes on a nervous planet. libby page; gail honeyman; dan brown; matt haig stephen king
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