Good Omens
Now a hit Amazon Prime series featuring David Tennant, Michael Sheen, Jon Hamm, and Benedict Cumberbatch, Good Omens is the novel that started it all. The Guardian called it 'ridiculously inventive and gloriously funny', and it's hard to argue with that. Picture this: the Apocalypse is genuinely, unambiguously scheduled for next Saturday, somewhere around teatime. Awkward. Particularly for Aziraphale, a fussy and rather particular angel, and Crowley, a demon with a taste for fast living and sharp suits. Both have spent so long wandering among humanity that they've quietly, embarrassingly, come to rather like it down here. The idea of it all going up in flames holds very little appeal for either of them. Things are complicated further by one fairly significant oversight: nobody can seem to locate the Antichrist. Gaiman and Pratchett make for an extraordinary pair of writers. Their voices mesh with a rare ease, producing something comic, sharp, and surprisingly warm. Readers consistently rave about it: 'a superb recipe for disaster, I didn't stop grinning from beginning to end'; 'both authors are brilliant and they complement each other perfectly'; 'superbly enjoyable from first page to last.' It's witty, it's strange, and it's well worth your Saturday afternoon. Even if it does happen to be your last.
- Author: Neil Gaiman
- Publisher: Corgi
- Genre: Horror
- ISBN: 978-0552171892
- Pages: 416 pages