The Scheme for Full Employment: A comic masterpiece by the Booker-shortlisted author

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A unique talent … Mills’s novels are among the best and most original in recent English fiction’ Literary Review

‘An enjoyable novel by a truly original writer’ Sunday Times

The Scheme was designed to provide an honest wage for an honest day’s labour. Men driving identical, rust-resistant Univans deliver Univan parts to strategically spaced warehouses. Simple, self-perpetuating and efficient, it seems destined to last forever.

But when some drivers begin leaving early and developing delivery sidelines, the workforce is divided into two camps: Flat-Dayers and Early Swervers. As tensions mount, the whole system threatens to fall apart…

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