Guards! Guards! Robin Jarvis Shortlisted for the 2015 Bollinger

Shortlisted for the 2015 Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse prize for comic fiction A rampaging force of nature is wreaking havoc on the streets of Edinburgh

I was my dad's vinyl-wallah: I changed his records while he lounged around drinking tea

there was a murder in the mix - or was it suicide

Since childhood

Guards! Guards! Robin Jarvis Shortlisted for the 2015 BollingerThis is where the dragons went. They lie not dead, not asleep, but dormant. And although the space they occupy isn't like normal space, nevertheless they are packed in tightly. They could put you in mind of a can of sardines, if you thought sardines were huge and scaly. And presumably, somewhere, there's a key GUARDS! GUARDS! is the 8th Discworld novel and after this, dragons will never be the same again!