Fridge Magnets Are Bastards

Author : Mark Dapin
Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 0730449769
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fridge Magnets Are Bastards written by Mark Dapin and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2017-01-01 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mad at the modern world? Meet Mark Dapin ... your new best friend Modern life: advertorials, obscenely cheerful breakfast tV hosts, celebrity chefs, call centres, smiling charity collectors. Brands, highly effective people, misuses of the word 'creative'. Performance reviews, people who say 'I'm not racist, but ... ', sushi bars and the taliban. Alexander Downer. Water-cooler moments. Yellow stickers. Fridge magnets. Mark Dapin can complain - and does - about almost everything. In Fridge Magnets are Bastards, he's tried to contain his rants about the things that annoy him to a list of 141 - in alphabetical order. Why? Just to be irritating. A book for anyone who's ever gnashed their teeth over contemporary stupidity. 'CYNICAL,ILL-tEMPERED AND NEEDLESSLY AGGRESSIVE. I tHOROUGHLY ENJOYED It.' JACK MARX 'ELEGANt, WELL CONSIDERED ABUSE IS A LOSt ARt IN tHE AGE OF tHE E-MAIL. HERE, MARK DAPIN REVIVES tHAt ARt tRIUMPHANtLY, HILARIOUSLY ...' MIKE CARLtON

Author : David McGimpsey
Publisher : Coach House Books
ISBN 13 : 1770562974
Total Pages : 153 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Li'l Bastard written by David McGimpsey and published by Coach House Books. This book was released on 2011-10-11 with total page 153 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "McGimpsey displays erudition, clever insights and a knack for the wickedly funny wisecrack."—The Washington Post Melding the deeply personal and the culturally popular, Li'l Bastard is confessional poetry as written by a chronic trickster and a committed liar. Written in part as an homage to John Berryman and Robert Lowell, this sequence of sixteen-line poems—"chubby sonnets"—explores the poet's obsessions (food, aging, baseball, beer, and Barnaby Jones) and map his midlife crisis on a wild flight through Montreal, Chicago, Nashville, Texas, and Los Angeles. Poignant and often achingly funny, Li'l Bastard will cement David McGimpsey's status as a beloved original. David McGimpsey is the author of four acclaimed collections of poetry, including Lardcake and Sitcom. He teaches at Concordia University in Montreal.

Author : Mick Farren
Publisher : SCB Distributors
ISBN 13 : 1909394009
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Elvis Died For Somebody's Sins But Not Mine written by Mick Farren and published by SCB Distributors. This book was released on 2013-04-17 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: You cannot believe a word Mick Farren tells you!” John Lydon A literary life railing against the machine, in the company of Johnny Cash, Frank Zappa, Chuck Berry and more. Mick Farren has spent more than 4 decades in the thick of the culture wars as a commentator, activist, essayist, poet, performer, and rebel with multiple causes. A founding figure of the 60s underground press, he careered on through the London birth pangs of punk, the intoxicated madness of Lower Manhattan under Ronald Reagan, earthquakes and urban insurrection in LA. Here you'll meet Frank Zappa, Johnny Cash, Chuck Berry and Gore Vidal, and steam open correspondence between the author and Pete Townshend.

Author : Lynsey Calderwood
Publisher : Jessica Kingsley Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1843100657
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cracked written by Lynsey Calderwood and published by Jessica Kingsley Publishers. This book was released on 2003 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the age of 14, Lynsey Calderwood suffered a traumatic brain injury that left her physically unmarked but destroyed her memory. Thrust back into an apparently nonsensical world of which she had no recollection; Lynsey spiralled downwards into depression and eating disorders as she became socially ostracized.

Author : Elvin James Mensah
Publisher : Ballantine Books
ISBN 13 : 0593499980
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Small Joys written by Elvin James Mensah and published by Ballantine Books. This book was released on 2024-04-09 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “This funny and bighearted debut is an ode to queer friendship and chosen family. . . . A tender and generous novel about finding your people, getting vulnerable, and celebrating every joy—big or small.”—BuzzFeed Could I one day inspire happiness in others, the same way he seemed to do in me? Harley is a young queer black man struggling to find his way in nineties Britain. Returning home, having just dropped out of college, he is racked by feelings of failure and inadequacy. Standing in the woods one day, on the verge of doing something drastic and irreversible, Harley is held back by a stranger: a tall, husky guy who emerges from the bushes holding a pair of binoculars. Muddy is an ebullient bird-watcher whose lust for his own life makes others feel better by association. A rugby fanatic and Oasis obsessive, he quickly becomes a devoted and loyal friend to Harley, who finds his enthusiasm infectious and his dimples irresistible. In no time, they become inseparable. Harley starts to think that life may be worth living after all, while Muddy discovers things about himself that the lads down at the rugby club would struggle to understand. But when figures from the past threaten to plunge Harley back into the depths of depression, his only hope of survival is through Muddy and the small joys that they create together. Moving, funny, and tender, Small Joys is an epic novel about ordinary lives that introduces the world to an unforgettable cast of characters and a major new literary talent.

Author : Gerry Adams
Publisher : Mercier Press Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1781175381
Total Pages : 314 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Never Give Up: written by Gerry Adams and published by Mercier Press Ltd. This book was released on 2017-11-03 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gerry Adams is known as a man of strong opinions and a quirky sense of humour . Never Give Up is a varied compilation of selected, reworked pieces that Gerry has written since 2009. They cover many issues. Some are fairly serious, others are very serious indeed. A few are whimsical. All will be enjoyed. The book gives an insight into the manoeuvring behind the scenes of political events, and how he became wrapped up in moments of history, both in Ireland and abroad, such as the funerals of Nelson Mandela and Fidel Castro. The book provides an insight into the private life of Ireland's best-known politician, including some very turbulent times in Gerry's life, such as his move from West Belfast to Co. Louth, and his passions, like hiking and the Antrim GAA teams. The book opens with a heartfelt tribute to his close friend and political ally, the late Martin McGuinness.

Author : Deon le Roux
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 0473197707
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Myth of 'Roo written by Deon le Roux and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2011-09-26 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We have been lied to for many years. It is a myth. There are no roo's. A couple of friends take on a journey through New Zealand and Australia to search for the mythical kangaroos. There is laughter and tears, freezing rain and sweltering heat, road kill and road trains. You will meet crazy Russians, warlords in hiding and some croc hunters. Read carefully as somewhere between Wellington and Cairns the meaning of life is revealed.

Author : Harkaitz Cano
Publisher : Archipelago
ISBN 13 : 0914671839
Total Pages : 420 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Twist written by Harkaitz Cano and published by Archipelago. This book was released on 2018-01-30 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A moving portrayal of violence's emotional legacy in the Basque Country. Twist is tale of guilt, love, friendship, and betrayal, and of the difficulties that arise when one flees one's own skin to inhabit the minds of others. Set in the politically charged climate of the Basque Country in the 1980s, Twist relates the disappearance and brutal murder of two ETA militants at the hands of the Spanish army. The novel centers on their friend and fellow activist Diego Lazkano, who, since revealing his comrades to the authorities, has been tormented by guilt. In Twist, Harkaitz Cano provides a multi-vocal account of a conscience and a society in turmoil.

Author : Philip Nolan
Publisher : Hachette Books Ireland
ISBN 13 : 1444743651
Total Pages : 189 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ryanland written by Philip Nolan and published by Hachette Books Ireland. This book was released on 2012-06-21 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this hilarious, no-holds-barred account, journalist Philip Nolan packs his bag (maximum 10kg, please) and takes us on an adventure that is not for the faint-hearted as he flies with Europe 's biggest low-cost airline. Using Ryanair destinations as a route planner, we grab our boarding passes and fight for the first available seat as we travel with him to towns we've never heard of ( Tampere and Wroclaw , anyone?) and to cities we've always wanted to visit. From watching the pilgrims completing the Camino in Santiago de Compostela to cheering with the fans in Frankfurt during the World Cup, from having his alpha waves channelled at a spa in Austria to a little soul cleansing at the baths at Lourdes, from the all-night party that is Riga to the eerie hush of Beauvais on a slow Monday night, we are treated to a kaleidoscopic snapshot of the quirks and foibles of a continent. Ryanair has opened up Europe 's treasures, and a few complete dumps too, in a way never before possible. From Biarritz to Blackpool to Bratislava , Pau to Pisa to Porto, Vienna to Valencia to Venice , Philip Nolan completes a whirlwind tour of the continent he calls Ryanland. The journey is whimsical, wistful and laugh-out-loud funny, as we travel on a spellbinding no-frills odyssey.

Author : Irvine Welsh
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 9780393068191
Total Pages : 358 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Crime written by Irvine Welsh and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2008 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Welsh's sizzling new novel is a thrilling journey into the bright glamour of the Sunshine State and a seething underworld of utter darkness, in this shocking story about the corruption and abuse of the human soul and the possibilities of redemption.