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In Your Dreams, by Tom Holt (Orbit, pounds 6.99)
You know how it goes. there's a bicycle in the store room that keeps threatening you with death, the Xerox machine is one of the office partners turned into fittings as punishment for a past crime, the VW Polo you drive is actually alive but speaks only German, and the beautiful girl downstairs is really a hideous goblin with a scary line in magic. Last seen in The Portable Door , Paul Carpenter finds life strange, but not that strange. He's used to being muddled by life and, anyway, the only girl he's ever loved has just dumped him. Of course, Paul is officially a hero, and that means he can do things ordinary mortals would find impossible, not to mention stupid and dangerous, if not suicidal. So when he has to rescue office colleagues from utter darkness . . . well, a hero's got to do what a hero's got to do. Classic Holt, if not quite up there with his best, but punching all the right buttons and displaying an increasingly dark sense...