Loki: A Bad God's Guide to Being Good by Louie Stowell

Loki: A Bad God's Guide to Being Good by Louie StowellWry, witty and very funny diary style story packed with doodles and comic strips about the frustration trickster god Loki feels at having to live trapped in the body of a weedy eleven year old boy. After one trick too many, Loki is banished to live on Earth as a "normal" school boy. Forbidden from using his AWESOME godly powers, Loki must show moral improvement. As he records his lies THE TRUTH in his magical (judgemental) diary, it becomes clear Loki

and at the time of publication in 1927 it represented an utter rejection of Victorian and Edwardian literary values

The power of this book comes from a sense that he is reaching out towards a type of desolation and of isolation without which no imagination can be seen to have grown up

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like a hugely enjoyable conversation with a particularly brilliant friend' Sadie Jones

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it must be told by many voices

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and a must for all nurseries

Don't read this book if you like your fiction cosy and middle-of-the-road' Bernardine Evaristo

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