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DescriptionShortlisted for the 2012 Costa First Novel prize. 'Maximilian Ponder is lying face up, dead, on the dining table in his own front room. This is something you really should know, right from the start. Maximilian Ponder shut himself away for thirty years in an attempt to record every memory he ever had. Now he lies dead, surrounded by his magnum opus - The Catalogue - an exhaustive set of notebooks and journals that he hopes will form the map of one human mind. But before his friend Adam Last can call the police and inform them of Max's death, one rather gruesome task remains in order for Max's project to be complete. Interspersed with sections from The Catalogue, Adam tells the story of the man he knew - a man whose life changed dramatically the day he buried a dead labrador and fought a duel with his father. What emerges is both the story of a friendship, and also of a lifelong obsession, a quest to understand the human mind, memory, and what constitutes a life. AwardsShortlisted for Costa First Novel Award 2012. ReviewsAn original and quirky debut BIG ISSUE IN THE NORTH 20130101 Author descriptionDr J.W. Ironmonger is 55 years old and works in software consultancy, which often takes him abroad. He is married with grown up children and lives in Shropshire. The Notable Brain of Maximilian Ponder is his first novel. |