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Affirm Press

Paradise Updated - Mic Looby

There are precious few places still untouched by tourism. Paradise Lost? Chance would be a fine thing. More like Paradise Packaged, Marketed and Sold in Easy-to-Enjoy Portions. And if there’s money to be made shining light into the darkest corners of the world, SmallWorld wrote the book on it.

Robert Rind is a legend in travel writing circles, fiercely independent and resolutely old school. Too old school. The Company decides he’s a liability and sends young, pliable Mithra to tropical Maganda to take his place. But the guidebook writer’s life isn’t all bustling street markets and five-star resorts: as any seasoned traveller knows, things rarely go as planned and Robert Rind is unlikely to come quietly.

Mic Looby’s masterful debut novel weaves a hilarious and hair-raising tale of compromised idealism and corporate skullduggery. You’ll never open another guidebook without reading between the lines.

‘Think of a better Phaic Tan, a satirical package with political nous and a social conscience ... sharp and brave‘ – The Sunday Age

‘Paradise Updated is a hugely entertaining travel adventure, and a meditation on the gap between reality and myth‘ – Sunday Tasmanian

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