There’s a great Peter Cook cartoon (he did a few for Private Eye): Two sketchy but trendy figures – one says, “I’m writing a book.” The other says, “Really? Neither am I.”
Apparently, everyone has at least one book in them. My father was a printer and he banged out thousands of them. I’ve squeezed out a couple of collections here so if you’re enjoying the Blogs or the Talks you’ll enjoy these. Or you’ll know someone who will!
The story behind the Children’s Fiction was a venture when my stepdaughter was nine and my wife worked early shifts for Next at Gatwick; what to do between 5am and 7am?
Read on!
CHILDREN’S FICTION
NINA’S PAL AL
(8 years+)
Nina has a school assignment to complete but can’t find any frogs. Her search unearths a very odd Snail who she names Al. What follows is a rollercoaster adventure as she tries to help Al get better after an unfortunate accident with a lawnmower, all the while trying to keep his existence top secret. That’s very hard to do when he starts unexpectedly and rapidly changing!
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SATIRE
SPIT THE DUMMY AND RUN
Spit The Dummy And Run is a sharp, satirical collection of 170+ brand new words and their definitions – designed specifically as a response to all those gut-wrenching business buzz words we hear every day.
This is verbal counter-terrorism hence the subtitle: Defining Defiance. This is the antidote to those meetings in which the most outrageously inappropriate and ill-engineered analogies are thrown into the room like grenades.
It all ends here. These new, stress-relieving words clarify and convey true meaning in a world where it has been all but lost.
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OLDHATSMAN
Essentially the origin of absurvd.com itself – OldHatsman is a collection of over 200 short satires and parodies based on the Author’s entries to the New Statesman magazine’s weekly writing competition. During the decade in question, out of 300 entries, a stonking 1 in 4 placed and were quite rightly rewarded with a small cash prize. This collection represents the also-rans that were pretty damn good too. Each reflecting topically on current or historical events, people or literature, these have stood the test of time as all good satire should.
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