Rhys Hughes invites you into a cheerfully off‑kilter world where measuring instruments wander the landscape on tiny legs, solving mysteries, dodging authority figures, and generally making a glorious muddle of things. Oddity O’Clock and the Knick Knack Irregulars may be made of gears and glass, but their adventures sparkle with warmth, whimsy, and the kind of surreal logic only Hughes can conjure.
"A marvellous book that is at once utterly cutting-edge, and at the same time part of a centuries-old tradition. It is simultaneously a gonzo, deadpan, absurdist, surreal romp, and likewise a profound ontological and epistemological treatise, albeit clothed in harlequin garb. Hughes is the Spike Jones of fantastika.’ — PAUL DI FILIPPO
Genre: Literary Fiction
"A marvellous book that is at once utterly cutting-edge, and at the same time part of a centuries-old tradition. It is simultaneously a gonzo, deadpan, absurdist, surreal romp, and likewise a profound ontological and epistemological treatise, albeit clothed in harlequin garb. Hughes is the Spike Jones of fantastika.’ — PAUL DI FILIPPO
Genre: Literary Fiction
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