{"product_id":"9780330492324","title":"Kraken","description":"\u003cp\u003eby Mieville, China | London, Greater London \u003cbr\u003ePublished 06\/05\/2011 by PAN MACMILLAN                   (Pan Books) in the United Kingdom \u003cbr\u003ePaperback | 496 pages\u003cbr\u003e196 x 130 x 28mm | 350g\u003c\/p\u003e\u003chr\u003e\u003cp\u003eWinner of the Locus Award for Best Science Fiction Novel, Kraken is a darkly comic, wildly absurd adventure by author of Perdido Street Station, China Miéville.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDeep in the research wing of the Natural History Museum is a prize specimen, something that comes along much less often than once in a lifetime: a perfect, and perfectly preserved, giant squid. But what does it mean when the creature suddenly and impossibly disappears?For curator Billy Harrow it's the start of a headlong pitch into a London of warring cults, surreal magic, apostates and assassins. It might just be that the creature he's been preserving is more than a biological rarity: there are those who are sure it's a god.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA god that someone is hoping will end the world.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"THE CLEEVE BOOKSHOP LTD","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57557513601399,"sku":"9780330492324","price":10.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0758\/0729\/3737\/files\/9780330492324.jpg?v=1791983077","url":"https:\/\/thecleevebookshop.co.uk\/products\/9780330492324","provider":"The Cleeve Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}