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The Furthest Station: A PC Grant Novella Hardcover – January 1, 2017

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There's something going bump on the Metropolitan line and Sergeant Jaget Kumar knows exactly who to call.

It's PC Peter Grant's speciality...

Only things are more than just going 'bump'. Traumatised travellers have been reporting strange encounters on their morning commute, with strangely dressed people trying to deliver and urgent message. Stranger still, despite calling the police themselves, within a few minutes the commuters have already forgotten the encounter - making the follow-up interviews rather difficult.

So with a little help from Abigail and Toby the ghost hunting dog, Peter and Jaget are heading out on a ghost hunting expedition.

Because finding the ghost and deciphering their urgent message might just be a matter of life and death...

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118 pages
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Gollancz
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January 1, 2017
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5.35 x 0.59 x 8.03 inches
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1473222427
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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Gollancz (January 1, 2017)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 118 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1473222427
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1473222427
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 3.53 ounces
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.35 x 0.59 x 8.03 inches

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Ben Aaronovitch was born in 1964. Discovering in his early twenties that he had precisely one talent, he took up screenwriting at which he was an overnight success. He wrote for Doctor Who, Casualty and the world’s cheapest ever SF soap opera Jupiter Moon. He then wrote for Virgin’s New Adventures until they pulped all his books.

Then Ben entered a dark time illuminated only by an episode of Dark Knight, a book for Big Finish and the highly acclaimed but not-very-well-paying Blake’s 7 Audio dramas.

Trapped in a cycle of disappointment and despair Ben was eventually forced to support his expensive book habit by working for Waterstones as a bookseller. Ironically it was while shelving the works of others that Ben finally saw the light. He would write his own books, he would let prose into his heart and rejoice in the word. Henceforth, subsisting on nothing more than instant coffee and Japanese takeaway, Ben embarked on the epic personal journey that was to lead to Rivers of London (or Midnight Riot as it is known in the Americas).

Ben Aaronovitch currently resides in London and says that he will leave when they pry his city from his cold dead fingers.

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skatinglibrarian

A delightful upbeat outing to Buckinghamshire

Reviewed in the United States on January 21, 2024

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Abigail, Peter, and friends are on the track of utterly un-scary ghosts who travel by train in hopes of getting help for an abducted princess.
Everything I have come to love about the series is here. Sly humor, a geography lesson as well as another in history, with a bit of architectural detail thrown in make the story magical. An encounter with talking foxes, and a young river god move things along to a happy ending.

Reviewed in the United States on July 12, 2017

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*sigh*
I like this series. I want more. I have trouble, however with the graphic novels in that they consist (for me ... this is all from my opinion, and is not a judgement of what others like) of more fluff than substance. There are a lot of frames without words and the ones that have words have depressingly few for stories whose main appeal for me is their humor, their cultural references, their forays into architecture, jazz, history, and worldbuilding sidebars into England's magical past and all that encompasses. This and for all the fact that you can see a characters expression as rendered by the artist, I would rather hear Peter's description of said expression. But maybe that is just me.

This was better than the graphic novels and reminds me of the short stories Mr. Aaronovitch has sometimes included at the end of the novels and has posted on Goodreads. I'm all for these, but unfortunately when I bought it I failed to look at how many pages it had and surmised from the price ($36.00 US) that it was the next novel. When it arrived from Amazon and was only 130 pages I went through several stages - shock, anger, grief ... not necessarily in that order - until I noticed it was a limited edition signed copy and then felt really stupid ... anyway, my point is, while I liked the story, especially its development of Abigail, I may have liked it less due to the above mentioned baggage I carried into it.

All this leads to an heartfelt appeal to the author if you should happen to read this: Don't give up on the novel form! As I said, the short stories and novellas are fine and a nice afternoon pleasure, but there is nothing like diving into several hundred pages of your favorite characters running around doing what they do in new wonderful ways. So many authors seem to stall lately (George R. R. Martin and Patrick Rothfuss ... yeah, I'm talking about you!), you need to step up and keep writing books with volume and dept that I can crawl into and rummage about in! ... I'm still buying hard backs, I'm still out here! There have to be more like me ....

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ealovitt

Shorter than I expected but vintage Peter Grant

Reviewed in the United States on July 1, 2017

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This 144-page novelette starring Constable and Apprentice Wizard Peter Grant is a short, sweet urban fairy tale with talking foxes and a modern-day princess who is in sore need of rescue. You will recall Peter's partner in "The Furthest Station," Sergeant Jaget Kumar as a member of the "world's first ever Anglo-American Olympic sewer luge team" in "Whispers Underground."

As a matter of fact, much of the action in "The Furthest Station" also takes place under London in the huge Victorian labyrinth of transportation tubes, where ghosts keep popping up on the crowded commuter trains and disturbing the general public.

Peter and Jaget are riding the trains themselves, hoping for a supernatural encounter of their own, and Peter comments: "It’s amazing how even on the most crowded Tube train a police uniform can clear a good ten centimetres of personal space all around your body. The other commuters will literally climb into each other’s armpits to avoid touching you. Maybe they think it’s bad luck or something."

As you can see from the above, this latest entry in the Peter Grant series carries on with the tongue-in-cheek first-person narrative style that made all the previous books in this series so un-put-downable.

Peter's young cousin, Abigail Kumara is enlisted in the ghost hunt as an unpaid teenage intern. For one thing, she has already displayed a talent for finding ghosts (see "Whispers Underground") and has suckered her cousin into promising to teach her magic. "A promise is a promise, or as [Peter's mentor and senior wizard] Nightingale put it, 'Either your word is good or it’s worthless.'”

Although I was disappointed at its brevity, "The Furthest Station" is still vintage Aaronovitch and well worth reading.

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Nicely imagined but you have to be a fan to understand it all

Reviewed in the United States on July 13, 2019

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This latest adventure of apprentice wizard and erstwhile copper Peter Grant is a treat; a well imagined novella about a kidnapped girl, the London Underground, and ghosts.
Having read many (if not all) of the Peter Grant novels in the past, I had no difficulty understanding (and appreciating) author Ben Aaronovitch's references to previous cases and characters. However, if you are a new reader, I'm afraid you would probably get lost when confronted with references to water goddesses, werelights, talking foxes and the like. For that reason, I would have liked it if the author had provided a little explanation for some of those references. Not pages and pages, mind you, just a paragraph or two that would have let new readers in on the secret.
The plot is well thought out: Ghosts begin appearing on the London subway system and after a suitable investigation Grant determines that the spirits are trying to let someone know that there has been a kidnapping. Solving the crime means that Grant must venture out of London and into the suburbs, an area that he is not especially comfortable in.
Written in a breezy narrative style that is the trademark of the Grant tales, the story features sly digs at the vagaries of UK bureaucracy and the laconic humor that Aaronovitch is known for.
All in all, a quick read that is a lot of fun: A great way to pass a lazy, hot, summer afternoon.

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Mona Leclerc

A great addition to the series

Reviewed in Canada on October 6, 2023

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Dear Ben strikes the bull’s eye again with this novella. Clear, witty prose makes this a fun read. Oh, I wish it ran for another two hundred pages.

Steph D

Another excellent installment!

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on December 16, 2023

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As much as I adore everything about the RoL series, every single book I have read so far is a straight up 5 stars, I just LOVE Abigail!! 😊

Cannot WAIT for the next one!!!

Sneak-Preview

Very witty.

Reviewed in Germany on December 13, 2023

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That is a good read. I thoroughly enjoyed all volumes of this series. Very witty.

Kinky Kid

Entretenido

Reviewed in Mexico on October 19, 2017

Una novela corta que para mi no ha sido tan entretenida como las demás entregas, pero que no deja de tener ese toque cómico y a la vez adulto de las demás.

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Helene

Excellent

Reviewed in France on March 21, 2018

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Une nouvelle à lire entre Les Disparues de Rushpool et L'arbre des Pendus. On voit mieux les relations entre Peter Grant et Nightingale. Le cas présenté est plus simple qu'habituellement, mais le côté court de la nouvelle permet d'avoir un concentré. On avance plus vite dans l'intrigue et il y a plus d'action. Je recommande.

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