Russell Hobans imagination knows no bounds ... darkly funny and profound The TimesYou want to buy my death for a million pounds Piccadilly Circus tube station is an unlikely location for a pact with the Devil but this is where Jonathan Fitch first meets Mr RinyoClacton. Devastated after his girlfriend Serafina has left him Jonathan agrees that this mysterious stranger will pay him a million pounds for a year if he agrees to die at the end of it. What could possibly go wrongA poignant and engaging fable of ownership and surrender Philip Hensher Mail on SundayNothing is accidental or optional in this jewelled clockwork egg of a book ... Hoban is a hugely skilled moving and endlessly entertaining writer The Times Literary Supplement