TY - BOOK AU - Frayn,Michael TI - Skios: a novel SN - 9780571281428 (pbk.) U1 - 823.92 23 PY - 2012/// CY - London PB - Faber and Faber KW - Domestic fiction KW - English fiction KW - 21st century KW - Interpersonal relations KW - Fiction KW - Humorous fiction KW - gsafd N2 - On the sunlit Greek island of Skios, the Fred Toppler Foundation's annual lecture is to be given by Dr Norman Wilfred, the world-famous authority on the scientific organisation of science. He turns out to be surprisingly young and charming -- not at all the intimidating figure they had been expecting ER -