"The Teleportation Accident" would be a great read for those who enjoy historical fiction with a twist. Ned Beauman's humor and wit adds an interesting layer to the novel's mystery. The book explores themes of sex, violence, space, and time while following protagonist Egon Loeser as he tries to solve two mysteries. The novel is set in various cities such as Berlin, Paris, and Los Angeles during the 1930s. The unique storytelling and unconventional narrative makes it a standout read.

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• Booker Prize Nominee for Longlist (2012)
• Somerset Maugham Award (2013)
• The Kitschies Nominee for Inky Tentacle (Cover Art) (2012)
• RSL Encore Award (2012)

Fantastically inventive, ingenious and funny new novel from author of the acclaimed BOXER BEETLE.DON'T LET THIS BOOK DISTRACT YOUThis dazzlingly ambitious, furiously original and deftly offensive new novel from author of the acclaimed Boxer, Beetle follows Egon Loeser - avant garde theatre set designer; sex-starved, lust-infused egotist; and all-round total prick. Beginning in 1930s Berlin and spanning the grubbiness and glamour of pre-War Paris and L.A., we follow Loeser's obsessive quest to re-create the perfect stage trick, the great Lavacini's Extraordinary Mechanism for the Almost Instantaneous Transport of Persons from Place to Place (better known as the Teleportation Device) - and to screw the perfect woman, one Adele Hitler.Aside from Loeser's olympically dull friends, we'll meet Scramsfield, a dissembling Bostonian recovering from a botched suicide pact; Colonel Gorge, who suffers from a bizarre condition known as ontological agnosia; and Bailey, a distinguished physicist working on a Teleportation Device of a different, and much more sinister, nature.The Teleportation Accident is a stunningly inventive novel about evasion and distraction; love, lust, sex and desire; transport, teleportation and time-travel; and the chilling disconnect between imagination and reality.BY THE TIME YOU FINISH READING THIS YOU MAY BE SOMEWHERE ELSE.

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