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Midnight in the Garden Centre of Good and Evil
Midnight in the Garden Centre of Good and Evil | Colin Sinclair
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Miller, fresh from too many pampered years at university, has managed to lose a PhD, a girlfriend, and her father's car. With parents now committed to a regime of find-your-own-way tough love, he's fallen off the fast track to success, and finds himself working in a shabby garden centre on the edge of nowhere. The staff are a collection of dropouts and oddballs, the boss is very shady, and Miller's not sure half the stuff they sell is legal. Still, he's learning to get on with things and make do, finding a brand new path through life, but... an alien invasion disguised as a bright and shiny big-box store from out of town? That really isn't helping. If Miller wants to protect his job and save the world, he's going to have to dig deep and get his hands dirty.
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Hisham
Mehso-so

With a rambling first person narrative, this novella has an enthralling charm. Inherently British - this story conjures memories of bygone weekends in rundown garden centers on the edge town.

Oh, and there's jeopardy and peril in the form of the vanguard of an apocalyptic alien invasion.

Fun stuff.