Unicorn-Calling for Pleasure & Profit by JR Hartley
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| Thanks to The Guardian |
Anyone old enough to remember the Yellow Pages (which was a printed telephone directory for businesses) will probably recall that commercial featuring the famous fictional book Fly Fishing by JR Hartley. For some reason it caught the public imagination and subsequently became a real book called Fly Fishing by JR Hartley (not written by JR Hartley because of course he was a fictional character from a commercial).
When Paul and Sophie, heroes of Tom Holt’s fantasy novel The Portable Door, are tasked with tidying the strong room at JW Wells & Co they discover Mr Hartley did not confine himself to fishing. He also wrote this handy how-to book: Unicorn-Calling for Pleasure & Profit. Who knew unicorn-calling was a thing?
Also in the strong room, Paul and Sophie find a handwritten manuscript of Le Jardin du Diable, un roman de Marcel Proust; five or six doll’s-house-sized books with titles like Lilliput On $2 A Day; and Bartholomew’s Road Atlas of Oz which only has one page, with a yellow line smack down the middle.
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| Thanks to Grunge.com |
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