{"product_id":"kraken","title":"Kraken","description":"\u003ch3\u003eSYNOPSIS\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWinner of the Locus Award for Best Science Fiction Novel, Kraken is a darkly comic, wildly absurd adventure by author\u003cimg\u003e of Perdido Street Station, China Miéville. Deep 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIt 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. A god that someone is hoping will end the world.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Paperback","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54067416006939,"sku":"9780330492324","price":10.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0674\/2533\/7627\/files\/9780330492324_c42de030-cf5d-4177-b655-395397f2804e.jpg?v=1790723736","url":"https:\/\/www.anpb.co.uk\/products\/kraken","provider":"A Novel Place Bookshop ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}