Aristotle's Cuttlefish

Name: Aristotle's Cuttlefish
Brand: RANDOM HOUSE UK
Price: 39.9 AUD
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By: Matthew Dooley

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Hardcover | 10 June 2025

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0.1 x 0.1 x 0.1

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Enter the bowls clubs, caffs and corner shops of Dobbiston town, as the acclaimed author of Flake returns to tell the story of Mr Daniels and a chance connection that altered the course of his life.

You can tell a lot about someone from what they misplace.

Oddball Mr Daniels has spent his life sorting chaos into order.

In the basement of a shabby Town Council building, he has meticulously labelled, guarded and sometimes claimed the lost property of Dobbiston's residents for thirty years; a life's work carried out mostly unnoticed.

But when a bored teenager on work experience interrupts his routine, Mr Daniel's underground world is revealed to be both a lonely prison of his own making and a refuge for his peculiar, uncurbed creativity. A place where hit-and-miss experiments to make the elixir of life, or record the music of the spheres, help him to grieve and search for existential truths.

Told through Lost Property Office vignettes - a snooker cue love story, a granny's tea cosy and a kid's toy on an intergalactic adventure - local histories are elevated to the momentous and profound, drawn with playful nostalgia and Dooley's deadpan wit.

Aristotle's Cuttlefish is an irresistible and witty portrait of a close-knit northern town and the lives those lost and found characters within it.

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