Distractions Christopher Buehlman and - of course -

and - of course - magic

See the world

But on an island at war

Nobody likes The Complaints - they're the cops who investigate other cops

Human consciousness is digitally freighted between the stars and downloaded into bodies as a matter of course

Distractions Christopher Buehlman and - of course -The setting, as always, is the Midlands but it differs from most of his other work in that the central characters are not middle or lower middle class, but very well to do, even aristocratic. The novel opens with the funeral of Edward Fielding's first wife. She has died by her own hand after years of mental illness the first of the distractions which are implied in the title. Edward, too, has behaved in unexpected ways. He loved and cherished his wife