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Mr. Gorzug · Book 3

Mr. Gorzug and the English Summer

A cancelled conference, a broken-down train, and an accidental road trip across England.

School’s out. Gorzug and Miss Khan are dispatched to a dreary professional-development conference — until the trains fail, the plans collapse, and the pair find themselves loose in the English summer instead. Seaside chips and warring seagulls. A village football derby. A B&B landlady with opinions. An aunt who has already decided exactly what Gorzug is to the family, thank you.

As Gorzug fills his notebook with bewildered, tender field reports on English life — queues, weak coffee, tiny kettles, the strange religion of football — the notebook quietly goes viral, and something unspoken between him and Saira Khan edges past deniability.

The lightest, most romantic book in the series: a love letter to England, written by someone still trying to work out how it functions.

“England has done rather well with you too.”
An illustrated map of Mr. Gorzug and Miss Khan’s English summer travels — from Halcyon Comprehensive to the coast, a village derby and back.