Since narrowly failing to win the Nobel Prize in 2001, Glen Baxter disappeared to a remote hillside fort in eastern Holland to continue his research on vole classification. Some ten months later, he emerged from his stronghold and made his way to Soho Square where, after a brief scuffle, he was reported to be in possession of a small fustian-lined hamper containing a manuscript that was to be labelled: Trundling Grunts.