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CHUCKING IT ALL In the true Maverick tradition, Chucking It All is the slimy under-belly of every glib getting-away-from-it-all book you ever read. Listed by Worldhum.com as one of the twelve best travel books of 2009, 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...” Worldhum.com's Best Travel Books of 2009 List
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The original Maverick Guide™ is the irreverent How to Write the Perfect Novel - A Tongue-in-Cheek Guide to Certain Literary Success. "...offers a twin-edged strategey, revealing how to play dull and safe and make a bundle" Screen Trade Magazine How to Write the Perfect Novel brings you Craftsmanship through Negative Learning(TM)! By showing you the worst excesses of 'popular fiction' it liberates the aspiring writer to either "unleash hell" in a shower of purple prose, or embrace a more rarefied but less mainstream output - no moral judgements offered, and untold wealth guaranteed! Of course, it's also a wildly funny read for the guilty lover of trashy novels, parodying thrillers, romances, crime, science fiction, erotica and even the Booker Prize with equal aplomb. Naming names and showing no mercy to the perpetrators, it will submerge you in such brain-numbing brilliance you may never browse through a library in quite the same way again....
Only £9.99
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