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A warm and witty look at the unofficial last years of British
colonial life as Scots from Dundee were running jute mills in India
and what was then East Pakistan in the 1960s, seen through the
small boy's eyes of the son of one of the jute wallahs.
Shoeboy in Pumpkin Land is a wonderfully surreal and Carrollesque
opera for young people, brought to you by the wacky partnership of
mad lyricist, Max Scratchmann, and round-the-bend composer, Michael
Dyer. Dealing with the joint themes of alienation and acceptance in
a darkly comic manner, this easy-to-stage one-act opera is the
perfect vehicle for schools and/or youth theatre companies seeking
to help children confront serious issues in a fun way. Jasper Jedd
is an ordinary boy except for one little thing - he is born with a
shoe for a head! And in this feast of devilish wit and roguish
musical creativity he sets off on a journey through the dark forest
of the fearsome Ginkle Snicks to find the mythical Pumpkin Land,
where he hopes he'll finally fit in...(Duration: 35 minutes) The
cover price of this libretto includes photocopying rights for one
production.
Packed full of funny Christmas poems, parodies and nonsense verse
by contemporary UK poets Max Scratchmann, Paul Curtis and Patrick
Winstanley, The Peculiar Poetry Collection of Funny Christmas Verse
distills the true spirit of Christmas - comic, misanthropic,
dyspeptic, or sometimes just sick. The collection is presented
chronologically, taking the reader in seven easy leaps from the
eager anticipation of Christmas, through the fun and festivities,
to the bitter aftertaste. Meet Pip, the ineffably jolly penguin who
gets on everyone's tits, revel in the feminist retelling of the
story of The Three Wise Men and discover the feminine hygiene
product set to be a Christmas sensation. Oddly compelling and
compellingly odd, you'll enjoy a roller coaster ride through the
festive peaks - drinking, feasting and flirtation - and troughs -
hangovers, religion and relations - in an anthology overflowing
with Christmas good cheer. Perfect as a present for a hard to
please relative (any relative ), a secret Santa gift for a
colleague, or a small indulgence for oneself, The Peculiar Poetry
Collection of Funny Christmas Verse is ribald, riotous and on
occasion very rude.
Meet the Pobble who has all his toes, share the Fish Supper of J
Alfred Prufrock and discover the lost manuscript of a poem penned
by Edgar Allen Poe on his visit to the Raven Hotel, Blackpool. My
Rubber Hebrew Nose is a hilariously insane collection of literary
parody and nonsense verse, written and superbly illustrated by
British humorist, Max Scratchmann, in the great tradition of Edward
Lear and Lewis Carroll. Come and join some literary greats and
their sexually deviant maiden aunts, as well as a stellar
supporting cast of horrible children and errant vicars, proving, if
proof were ever needed, that British comic verse is truly for life
and not just for Christmas.
Named one of the twelve best travel books of 2009 by Worldhum,
Chucking It All exposes the gritty reality behind all those twee
bestsellers which extol the joys of sunny rural idylls. With its
remorseless true-life account of downshifting to a remote Scottish
island, Chucking It All uncovers the frightening realities of
relocating to "a magical island lost in the mists of time" as you
follow the warts-and-all adventures of urban misanthrope, Max
Scratchmann, as he valiantly tries to forge a new life in the
windswept Orkney islands, and grumbles his way through unending
winters with eighteen-hour nights, nocturnal visits from drunken
farmers and booty calls from desperate divorcees. From struggling
to fit in as a temporary postman in a wilderness where houses don't
display numbers or names, to attending drunken country ceilidhs
with the island singles' club, or finding himself up to the neck in
local politics while performing in the village pantomime, Chucking
It All is an urbanite's nightmare and one of the most hilarious
books that you will read this year. Irreverent, sarcastic and
bitingly caustic, Chucking It All still manages to be a grudgingly
affectionate portrait of rural life through the eyes of a cynical
outsider, and is one of the truest accounts of "living the dream"
ever published. "Does for downshifting what Lewinsky did for
Clinton - only much funnier..."
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