Deal : Humour

Date: 23 February, 2021

Tony Butterworth is beginning his six-month, work assignment deep in a wilderness teeming with carnivorous predators. And what is he dragging in with him this year? A-tisket, a-tasket, an extra-full basket of torment and turbulence. As a veteran lookout observer, he lives alone in an isolated cabin and climbs a 100-foot fire tower daily to scan for and report wildfires. One of Tony’s more flirtatious tower neighbours, Muffy, who he secretly drools over, convinces him to keep a journal to help him maintain his sanity: who could have predicted that Pandora’s Box would explode with such dark but hysterical repercussions?...

Date: 7 February, 2021

Not all heroes in this world are the same and The Teleporter is a laugh out loud, fourth wall breaking boozy tale that sticks a middle finger up to the man! If you like your comedy random and politically loaded, this is the book for you! 99 Cent Bargain Book on February 7, 2021

Date: 31 January, 2021

"Hole Punch, by Garth Simmons, is a short story collections that defies description. Within its pages are hundreds of short, often fragmented, often bizarre narratives, characterised by cartoonish excess, visceral sensory descriptions, eccentric characters, and a grim but brilliant humour."neonbooks,org.uk "a raw, fragmented, nightmarish collection of stories that makes you feel simultaneously bewildered, scared, disgusted, amused and angry all at once"Dystopic.co.uk HOLE PUNCH is: The height of the Earth Empire – where War Bricks flatten alien civilisations.Yorkshire 1985 – where a child's mind is patched together with trauma.Ancient Greece – where Socrates discovers a carnal method of time-travel.Mars 2348 –...

Date: 8 December, 2020

Confessions of a Barber is about my life as I started in hairdressers when I was 13 and had lots of lovely clients over the years. Had many amazing opportunities and lots of life experiences and full of fun, laughter, tears and heart ache and it’s been a real roller-coaster over the last 37 years. The last 26 years my Journey started as employee in a new barbers shop working 6 days a week to build the business up and then I became a partner in the business and a couple of years later I was gifted the business and...

Date: 18 September, 2020

Bolton. 1901. Charlotte Roach is born. Destined for a life being deafened by the looms at the Mill and dying of consumption (often cheaper than buying a job lot of Cholera), she wants none of it. Trouble is, she’s a bit potato faced, and no-one thinks she’ll amount to anything. Determined to have a better life for herself, she sets out on a singular path to achieving Hollywood stardom…via the outdoor lav. It's a long slog and along the way she discovers that if you're from Lancashire, you can never quite remove all traces of chip fat and clogs, no...

Date: 30 July, 2020

Q. What does a woman do with her arsehole before making love? A. Drops him off at the club. Is this sexist? Who decides whether it should or should not be? It is just one of a random collection of quips, poems, paraprosdokians, anecdotes, philosophies and rants selected from the compiler’s email inbox over a period of years. A collection of fun, filth and philosophy! Remember that he didn’t send these emails, he received them. He hopes you will find this eclectic collection amusing, interesting and thought provoking. You may laugh at some and cringe at others. If you think...