The Soddit: Or, Let's Cash in Again

Bingo Grabbins is a soddit who enjoys a comfortable life (apart from his feet, of course). But his contentment is disturbed when the wizard, Gandef, and a company of bizarrely Welsh dwarves drag him away on an adventure.
They have a plot to raid the treasure hoard (or so they say) guarded by Smug, a large and very tedious dragon. Bingo is reluctant to take part in this insane venture, but a dwarven dagger held to his throat soon surprises even himself and off the companions go on a quest that seems truly epic (well, until you read about what later happened to Bingo's cousin, at any rate).

Oh, and Bingo finds this ring thing...

Author: A. R. R. R. Roberts
Publisher: Orbit
Published: 09/18/2012
Pages: 368
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.50lbs
Size: 6.10h x 4.30w x 1.20d
ISBN: 9780316213950

Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 07/30/2012 pg. 43

About the Author
Adam Roberts is thirty-six and a Senior Reader in English at London University. His first novel, Salt, was nominated for the Arthur C. Clarke Award. He has also published a number of academic works on both nineteenth-century poetry and science fiction.