{"product_id":"aristotles-cuttlefish-hardcover","title":"Aristotle's Cuttlefish - Hardcover","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eMatthew Dooley\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eYou can tell a lot about someone from what they misplace. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Oddball Mr. Daniels has spent his life sorting chaos into order. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e In the basement of a shabby Town Council building, he has meticulously labelled, guarded and sometimes claimed the lost property of Dobbiston's residents for thirty years; a life's work carried out mostly unnoticed. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e But when a bored teenager on work experience interrupts his routine, Mr. Daniel's underground world is revealed to be both a lonely prison of his own making and a refuge for his peculiar, uncurbed creativity. A place where hit-and-miss experiments to make the elixir of life, or record the music of the spheres, help him to grieve and search for existential truths. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Told through Lost Property Office vignettes - a snooker cue love story, a granny's tea cozy and a kid's toy on an intergalactic adventure - local histories are elevated to the momentous and profound, drawn with playful nostalgia and Dooley's deadpan wit. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Aristotle's Cuttlefish is an irresistible and witty portrait of a close-knit northern town and the lives those lost and found characters within it.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eMatthew Dooley won the Cape\/Observer Graphic Short Story Prize and his debut FLAKE, published by Cape in 2020, went on to win the Wodehouse Bollinger Prize, the first time for a graphic novel. It was also a Guardian Book of the Year.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 176\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.01 x 9.61 x 6.81 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e September 09, 2025\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54308425269359,"sku":"9781787333956","price":53.42,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0753\/5840\/4719\/files\/iVht7hSoyC9781787333956.webp?v=1789590048","url":"https:\/\/www.sidekickcomicbooks.com\/products\/aristotles-cuttlefish-hardcover","provider":"Sidekick Comic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}