Tall Stories (Expecting Someone Taller & Ye Gods!) - Tom Holt

Two larger than life comic Fantasies in one hilarious volume

EXPECTING SOMEONE TALLER

All he did was run over a badger – sad, but hardly catastrophic.

But it just wasn’t Malcolm Fisher’s day The badger turned out to be none other than Ingolf, last of the Giants. With his dying breath, he reluctantly handed Malcolm two Gifts of Power, and made him ruler of the world. Funnily enough, that made a lot of other Earth-dwellers rather unhappy

YE GODS!

Being a Hero bothers Jason Derry. It’s easy to get maladjusted when your mum’s a suburban housewife and your dad’s the Supreme Being. It can be a real drag slaying fabulous monsters and retrieving golden fleeces from fire-spitting dragons, and then having to tidy your room before your mum’ll let you watch Star Trek. But it’s not the relentless. tedium of imperishable glory that finally brings Jason to the end of his rope; it’s something so funny that it’s got to be taken seriously. Deadly seriously