Foundations of Magic Procedure & Practice by Bowyer & Leong

Thanks to American Literature 
(How interesting. This dish is oblong. I’m sure all the dishes I’ve seen before have been round)

Title: Foundations of Magic Procedure & Practice 

Author: Bowyer & Leong

Publisher: not known

Source book: The Better Mousetrap by Tom Holt

Emily grabs her copy of Bowyer & Leong’s Foundations of Magic Procedure & Practice off her office bookshelf to look for information on the suppression of telepathic communications. Apparently you have to recite nursery rhymes over and over in your head so you don’t have to hear what other people are thinking.

New Oxford Thaumaturgy, O’Shaunessy’s Theory & Practice, and Morrison’s First Steps in Commercial Sorcery all say the same. 

As a last resort Emily tries Magic for Dummies and discovers it to be a much underrated book. It too suggests the nursery rhymes, but then says “But hey - who can be bothered with all that, right? So instead, try 2ccs of lithium cryptosulphate on a sugar lump. Works a charm, and you don’t have to share your head with Mary’s lamb.” 

Much to Emily’s annoyance, her assistant Erskine (who is in fact a dog), reads On Banshee Management by Hasdrubal and Singh while they wait to see Mr Pickersgill (a troll). She was instructed to read it for her final exams but couldn’t get past the introduction without falling asleep. And here’s Erskine making notes!

Thanks to the Library of Congress