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Pub Date Jun 28 2026 | Archive Date Jul 15 2026


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Description

  • The first novel in a hilarious new series featuring an anarchic magical world, a high-stakes mission, fast-paced action, a really bad baddie and nefarious puzzles in need of solving. 
  • Enter into a strange alternate London with its own internal logic – a familiar, but twisted, world with peril at every turn. 
  • Featuring logic puzzles throughout, Evil Goods is a unique adventure novel with an escape room vibe. Puzzles can be skipped! 


A MAGICAL WORLD. A RELUCTANT HERO. A RAGTAG TEAM. 

It’s already been a bad day for Richard Parry, and that’s before he’s shot. After that it just gets worse. 

Thrown into a surreal world, he is seen by some as the manifestation of a prophecy and bringer of doom who might need to be soundly terminated. On the positive side, the Ministry of Insecurity think he will be useful on a suicide mission. 

Richard and an ill-matched team now venture into the stranger, and more than a bit weirder, parts of this alternate world to discover a traitor intent on derailing the mission and that the ultimate villain is a figure from his own past... 

ABOUT THE AUTHOR 

Marcus Bone is the pseudonym of a writer who, after 30 years of serious journalism, in technology and finance reporting, has turned his pen to creating a partly, but not completely, unrecognisable alternate world. He lives in Surrey with his wife and son and collection of vintage cameras .



  • The first novel in a hilarious new series featuring an anarchic magical world, a high-stakes mission, fast-paced action, a really bad baddie and nefarious puzzles in need of solving. 
  • Enter into a...

Advance Praise

''Quirky, funny, different, and keeps you wanting more'' – Andrew Ryan, Q Radio

''Brilliantly imaginative, fizzing with jokes, ideas and more jokes'' – Richard Blandford, Flying Saucer Rock & Roll

''Quirky, funny, different, and keeps you wanting more'' – Andrew Ryan, Q Radio

''Brilliantly imaginative, fizzing with jokes, ideas and more jokes'' – Richard Blandford, Flying Saucer Rock & Roll


Available Editions

EDITION Paperback
ISBN 9781806342709
PRICE £9.99 (GBP)
PAGES 344

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