A Beginner's Guide to Breaking and Entering

Best known as a humorist (and linked to the television programme Qi in the U.K.) the author published a very good science fiction book in 2020, The Last Day in which the world stops spinning. So, this was a surprise. It is best described as a caper. A young man seeks out an existence breaking into and living in houses he knows are empty, at least for a while. All goes well until… he crosses paths with others doing the same thing, a dead body is soon involved and the mounting complications make this a page-turner. Yet it also has… show more.