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	Magnus Mills - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Magnus Mills was born in Birmingham and brought up in Bristol.
		In 1986 Mills moved to London and became a bus driver.
		Magnus Mills has cited Primo Levi as a key influence.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Magnus_Mills (766 words)

	Magnus Mills The Scheme for Full Employment Reviewed by Rick Kleffel
		One of the most creative emerging writers of speculative fiction is Magnus Mills, who eschews all of the standard-issue props for a low-key approach that simply takes portions of the world as we know it and re-arranges them in an utterly unique style.
		Its fantasy is primarily economic, and Mills deploys his fantasy in a laconic, droll prose that is short and to the point.
		Mills is not imagining changes in science or fantasizing the existence of magical powers.
	trashotron.com /agony/reviews/2002/mills-full_employment.htm (828 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Three to See the King: Books: Magnus Mills (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Mills, whose other books include Booker-shortlisted The Restraint of Beasts and All Quiet on the Orient Express, is an absorbing, disturbing writer who is refining his observations with each new book.
		Mills' simplicity of writing and gift for story telling fills the pages with some memorable characters, dialogue of convincing mundaneness and incidents as noteworthy as remembering to sweep the sand away from the tin door in case our narrator becomes imprisoned.
		It is to a large degree the sparseness of this environment that enables Magnus Mills to concentrate on the relationships between the characters without any distractions, and hence enables the reader to better appreciate the subleties of these relationships, and the implications of events as they unfold.
	www.amazon.co.uk /Three-See-King-Magnus-Mills/dp/0007110472 (1993 words)

	The Restraint Of Beasts \| The Onion - America's Finest News Source
		Aside from the occasional accidental death of someone connected to their endeavors—deaths treated in the most matter-of-fact way possible—little happens to the workers outside of their job, which is precisely the point.
		Mills dwells on the mundane details of fence-building in a manner reminiscent of Melville's dwelling on the mundane details of whaling, but to considerably different effect.
		Mills understands that hard labor gets turned into soul-crushing, dead-end work by the conditions around it and the petty tyrannies of those in command.
	www.theonion.com /content/node/19584 (220 words)

	All Quiet On The Orient Express \| The Onion - America's Finest News Source
		But whatever its value as parable, the strength of Mills' casual, matter-of-fact storytelling is that it never overreaches for symbolic effect, staying well within the bounds of his bleak, insular universe.
		With impressive economy and wit, Mills notes the subtle ways in which he's kept at a distance, from the low-end excelsior he's served at the pub to the grocer's inexplicable refusal to stock his beloved baked beans.
		Mills is more interested in the ominous, powerful figures that surround his hero and conspire to determine his sorry lot in life.
	www.theonion.com /content/node/19582 (326 words)

	Magnus Mills at the Complete Review
		Doch der Vergleich hinkt: Mills ist viel witziger, viel versponnener und viel knapper.
		Magnus Mills' initial claim to fame was his unlikely first success -- bus driver turned author whose first book is then short-listed for two prestigious British literary prizes (Booker, Whitbread).
		Mills has shown a remarkably composed hand in his compositions: his writing feels well-practiced, like an author very certain of his craft.
	www.complete-review.com /authors/millsma.htm (618 words)

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		Magnus Mills was a London bus driver for a dozen years.
		What one loves about Magnus Mills (aside from the fact that he was a London bus driver until his first novel, "The Restraint of Beasts," made him famous) is that he can make the contents of a garage suspenseful.
		Mills is expert at capturing the rhythms of the everyday, noncommunicative speech we engage in.
	www.arcadepub.com /onix/?isbn=1559704950 (526 words)

	Explorers of the New Century - Magnus Mills
		Mills writes in a straightforward style, and the story that unfolds seems a picture of normality -- albeit in unusual circumstances -- for quite a while.
		But this is a Magnus Mills novel, and first impressions are, of course, deceiving: these expeditions aren't normal at all.
		Mills understated approach, with what moralising there is put in the mouths of the characters (convincingly enough), drives the point home nicely.
	www.complete-review.com /reviews/millsm/explore.htm (1110 words)

	Magnus Mills : Explorers of the New Century : Book Review
		Mills creates obvious parallels between this race and the 1911 race for the South Pole between Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen, who became the first to reach the Pole, and the British explorer Robert Falcon Scott, who, with his crew, died in the attempt to return to his base.
		Most readers will immediately recognize the parallels Mills is drawing to history and, though some readers may find the parallels to be a bit didactic, the author is careful not to violate the limits of his plot, and he does not sermonize.
		Magnus Mills was born in 1954 in Birmingham and brought up in Bristol.
	mostlyfiction.com /humor/mills.htm (925 words)

	STAGE: Unrestrained beast feast Independent, The (London) - Find Articles
		THE BOOKER-SHORTLISTED 1998 debut novel by Magnus Mills, The Restraint of Beasts, is to be given a multimedia staging.
		Mills, a former Route- master bus driver and fence builder, reads from his cult book as the story is acted out against a video backdrop of fencers at work and the sound of the hammering of fence posts and lorries driving past.
		Mills gave up driving buses after his first novel hit the shelves, but he soon became miserable; his latest book, The Scheme for Full Employment, is loosely based on his current job as a delivery van driver.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_qn4158/is_20041117/ai_n12822627 (573 words)

	Eye Weekly - On Page - 02.25.99
		In his back-cover blurb, no less than Thomas Pynchon praises Magnus Mills' "rude salute to the dark side of contract employment," shortlisted for the last year's Booker Prize.
		Mills is a London bus driver and he's obviously had a long and varied career doing jobs just like Tam and Richie's.
		Still, Mills requires a foil, and the three emerge as the only relatively sane people in the book, seeing as characters like Donald, the sinister Halls and Tam's Dad seem to be completely mental.
	www.eye.net /eye/issue/issue_02.25.99/art/onpage.html (619 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Explorers of the New Century: Books: Magnus Mills (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Whilst the book doesn't quite reach the heights of Mills' debut novel, "Restraint of Beasts", largely due to the difficulty in reproducing the impact of the latter's sheer originality, it does manage to engender an unusual sense of unease.
		Mills' first two books (The Restraint of Beasts and All Quiet on the Orient Express) are among my all time favorites, however, his last two (Three to See the King and The Scheme for Full Employment) were deeply disappointing.
		The formal, quasi-military groups are the perfect venue for Mills' spare, deadpan style, which perfectly mirrors the psychological discomfort among the men.
	www.amazon.co.uk /Explorers-New-Century-Magnus-Mills/dp/0747580189 (1827 words)

	Magnus Mills Three to See the King Reviewed by Rick Kleffel (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		This novel is written so closely, in such a perfect voice that Mills can carry off the feat of creating an entire world, similar to ours, but definitely not ours in the space most writers need to get the main characters introduced.
		Mills keeps his characters clear and in focus, and just enough off-kilter so as to seem accustomed to their own world (which seems quite weird to the reader), but not too ready for the changes in their own world (which are to the reader familiar permutations wrought upon an unfamiliar background).
		To Mills credit, the novel itself is shortest distance between the points he makes in 'Three to See the King'.
	trashotron.com /agony/reviews/mills-3_to_see_the_king.htm (418 words)

	Explorers of the New Century: by Magnus Mills from Harcourt Trade Publishers
		When Magnus Mills gives the world a shake, you never know what might fall out of his pockets," proclaims the Los Angeles Times.
		Mills burst on the literary scene a decade ago with The Restraint of Beasts, a novel Thomas Pynchon called a "demented, deadpan-comic wonder." This new work proves that he has become a master storyteller whose books are each "as welcome as a warm bus on a rainy day" (The Oregonian).
		MAGNUS MILLS worked as a full-time bus driver in London until the success of The Restraint of Beasts, which was short-listed for the Booker Prize.
	www.harcourtbooks.com /bookcatalogs/bookpages/9780156030786.asp (173 words)

	hackwriters.com
		Mills' latest novel belongs to the literature of allegory because despite strong preferences for tea and cakes by the characters, not much in this novel grounds it in the author's homeland.
		In a sendup of a dialectical materialism that predicted the working class would finally triumph, Mills seems to say the real operative dialectic is "schism-ism": Left to their own devices, a group of two or more workers will usually come to blows over an inherent need to be against something.
		But also read this latest from Magnus Mills for sly humor ("a number of men stood around examing the concrete floor, or looking with deep interest at the steel-span roof") that is anything but cartoony.
	www.hackwriters.com /magnusmills.htm (528 words)

	Guardian Unlimited Books \| By genre \| Review: Three to See the King by Magnus Mills
		Mary Petrie is as much of a surprise to him as she is to the reader (a woman in a Magnus Mills novel!), but he swiftly finds himself in a fully-fledged relationship hedged with habit and mutual accommodation.
		Mills delineates a fine comedy of coupledom, its criticisms, miscommunications and coded orders ("I think we'll have these shutters open"), as the pair struggle to balance the concurrent needs for intimacy and solitude.
		In his shifting, suggestive parable, Mills throws into relief the stark essences of leadership and individuality, community and solitude, progress and retreat.
	books.guardian.co.uk /reviews/generalfiction/0,6121,499785,00.html (942 words)

	Las Vegas Mercury: Books: Road to nowhere
		The Scheme for Full Employment, the new novel from former London bus driver Magnus Mills, opens with some curious exhibits--a minimalist road map and a fairly oblique sample of a daily duty roster--and an elegy of sorts in the brief introduction that follows them.
		Mills is the master of blue-collar angst, unparalleled at delineating not only the deadly banality of unvarying routine but the contradictory dread of anything that would upset it--sudden and brilliantly unexpected violence in The Restraint of Beasts, or the mere appearance of a woman in Three to See the King.
		Still, Mills is smart and funny and well worth reading, and the book's a real value--a new hardcover for less than twenty bucks.
	www.lasvegasmercury.com /2003/MERC-May-01-Thu-2003/21176275.html (713 words)

	eBay.co.uk - Magnus Mills, Fiction Books, First Editions, Audio Books items at low prices (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Magnus Mills The Restraint of Beasts 1st/1st Booker
		Magnus Mills - The Restraint of Beasts - PB
		MAGNUS MILLS - THE RESTrAINT OF BEASTS - FUNNY P/B
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	Rambles: Magnus Mills, The Restraint of Beasts (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		There are reminders here of Kafka and Becket and humor of a decidedly dark turn between turns of repetitious drudgery and pub-crawling that is the lot of these hapless laborers.
		Mills crams some memorable characters into the short 214 pages of this novel, including a father who builds a stockade to keep his son away, the obsessive owner of the fence-building company and the equally obsessed Hall brothers.
		I believe I'll be wanting more of Mills' tales.
	www.rambles.net /mills_restraint99.html (241 words)

	Independent Online Edition > Reviews (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Magnus Mills's fifth novel is an adventure yarn with a difference.
		In the first 100 pages, the alert reader will pick up that something weird is going on, but you're unlikely to figure out what until shortly before it becomes explicit.
		Mills, an economical writer in an age of windbags, is also generous, scattering clues, encouraging the reader to work things out before he spells them out.
	enjoyment.independent.co.uk /books/reviews/article312880.ece (499 words)

	Birsay Heritage Trust - Main Details
		St Magnus Church, Birsay stands on the site of a much older church, in existence long before St Magnus Cathedral in Kirkwall.
		Thorfinn's main residence was in Birsay according to the Sagas, and the remains of elaborate buildings on the Brough of Birsay are thought to be Thorfinn's headquarters.
		The 'click mill' was so named because of the sound it made whilst running, and it is the most primitive type of water-powered mill known in Britain.
	www.birsay.org.uk /heritage.htm (1206 words)

	City Pages - Magnus Mills: <I>All Quiet on the Orient Express </I>
		IN PUBLICITY PHOTOS, Magnus Mills looks dangerously placid, a man fully aware of the misery of the daily grind yet wholly unruffled.
		Quiet, polite, unwilling to make a fuss, Mills makes even his most ominous moments seem a combination of nothing more than good manners and reticence pushed slightly past the point of absurdity--just a spot of bother, really.
		Work might be hell, Mills argues, but it's the best hell available--one that, given enough creature comforts, we may even come to enjoy.
	www.citypages.com /databank/20/988/article8157.asp (848 words)

	Blogcritics.org: Three To See The King by Mangus Mills
		In fact, he finds himself at the center of an confrontation between Hawkins and his former followers and is forced to mediate their violent dispute.
		Mills has a way of communicating the temperaments and personalities of the characters without a lot of language; without long drawn out descriptions.
		By removing all of the clutter that normally surround people's live Mills is able to focus on human interaction and motivation.
	blogcritics.org /archives/2004/05/05/215822.php (1430 words)

	City Pages - Fences
		Mills employs an inventive comedic stance, yes, but he does so in a stark prose style that is closer to the understated realism of Raymond Carver than the manic lexiphanicism of T.P.: "As Mr.
		McCrindle had demonstrated by his phone call, the main concern of farmers was that their fences should be tight.
		Along with his fabulous approach, Mills has a keen visual sense of humor, often trained on the hapless Tam.
	www.citypages.com /databank/19/937/article6542.asp (732 words)

	BBC - collective - magnus mills 'explorers of the new century' review.
		A team of Brits and a team of Scandinavians race through desolate terrain towards the ‘Agreed Furthest Point’, which the accepting reader assumes to be the Pole.
		Readers familiar with Mills’ deceptively slight, deeply mysterious fictions won’t be disappointed by the Kafkaesque allegorical currents pulsing beneath his novel’s seemingly banal exterior.
		And while 2003’s The Scheme For Full Employment saw him refine the subtlety of his marriages between the very normal and the very odd to almost too fine a degree, those yet to discover this genuine English original will find much to enjoy, puzzle over and be troubled by in Explorers Of The New Century.
	www.bbc.co.uk /dna/collective/A14334130 (284 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Magnus Mills has had more jobs than you’ve had hot dinners.
		A few years ago, pretty much by accident, his writing skills were brought to the attention of the ‘Independent’ newspaper, where he wrote about Life on the Buses for a year or so; then, while continuing to drive the number 18 bus out of Brixton depot, he decided to write a novel…
		Superficially a book about a lonely man missing out on booze, girls and cash in the Lake District off peak, if you have read it you will know that it is actually a very acute parable about capitalist Darwinism, the sort of subject that Kafka writes about in a similarly bleak and absurd way.
	www.harpercollins.co.uk /authors/default.aspx?id=4026 (369 words)

	Magnus Mills
		Magnus Mills' caught the limelight with his unlikely first success -- bus driver turned author whose first book is then short-listed for two prestigious British literary prizes (Booker, Whitbread).
		Magnus Mills went on to be a gardener, a postman and a White Van Man. Mills wasn't a literary one hit wonder, either.
		Mills' workman-related fiction owes its success to his ability to capture that specific milieu so well.
	www.fantasticfiction.co.uk /m/magnus-mills (130 words)

	Only when the sun shines brightly, Magnus Mills (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Magnus Mills caught the limelight when he became the first bus driver to be short-listed for the Booker Prize.
		His novel: 'The Restraint of Beasts' went on to sell over 30,000 copies and has been translated into 16 languages.
		Only when the sun shines brightly does he finally remove it, and the wind roars away in a bad temper.
	www.acornbook.co.uk /books/only_when.htm (128 words)

	Three To See The King - Magnus Mills - Printed Books Shopping at dooyoo.co.uk
		Mary Petrie quickly decides to exert her womanly influences on the house and solitary peace is disturbed, but companionship is strangely welcomed.
		Mills is known for his deadpan and distinctly original works and deadpan and original are how I found this.
		Mills' first book, The Restraint of Beasts has been a success across our globe and garnished...
	www.dooyoo.co.uk /printed-books/three-to-see-the-king-magnus-mills (329 words)

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