{"product_id":"aristotles-cuttlefish-9781787333956","title":"Aristotle's Cuttlefish","description":"You can tell a lot about someone from what they misplace. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Oddball Mr. Daniels has spent his life sorting chaos into order. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Told through Lost Property Office vignettes - a snooker cue love story, a granny's tea cozy 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMatthew Dooley won the Cape\/Observer Graphic Short Story Prize and his debut FLAKE, published by Cape in 2020, went on to win the Wodehouse Bollinger Prize, the first time for a graphic novel. It was also a Guardian Book of the Year.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Jonathan Cape","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51806085349650,"sku":"9781787333956","price":30.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_7aba6bb1-ffdf-4eec-981e-b1da5f691e33.jpg?v=1765974967","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/aristotles-cuttlefish-9781787333956","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}