Story Behind The Book
The book was written as a personal challenge by the authors. The story is very loosely based around the legend of The Hartlepool Monkey (Google it!) and concerns the darkly entertaining pursuit of a magical 'orb' that has powers to save the world from evil domination. It is lewd, juvenile and downright perverse in parts, but we believe it to be a work of pure genius. Well, we would say that wouldn't we?
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:#000000;">"Pacy, innovative and very self-aware humour. Spike Milligan would be proud."</span><span style="color:#000000;"><br /><br /></span><span style="font-family:Arial;color:#000000;">"This is a good read ...a quilt of eccentric disreputable notions."</span><span style="color:#000000;"><br /><br /></span><span style="font-family:Arial;color:#000000;">"This is astoundingly original, and like a breath of fresh air. I never knew where it was going to take me next. This one pulls out all the stops. It's surreal, for sure, but in a kind of grounded way. Just when we think it can't get any more mad ... well, it can."</span><span style="color:#000000;"><br /><br /></span><span style="font-family:Arial;color:#000000;">"How weird. But fun too. Love the Smiths, sorry the Snaiths, think they may be neighbors of mine! This is a crazy yarn for mad adults. A winner."</span><span style="color:#000000;"><br /><br /></span><span style="font-family:Arial;color:#000000;">"You have me in stitches!! This is so... British? Hilarious, anyway. You're sick, and I love it!"</span><span style="color:#000000;"><br /><br /></span><span style="font-family:Arial;color:#000000;">"Roaringly funny, if that's a word!!" </span><span style="color:#000000;"><br /><br /></span><span style="font-family:Arial;color:#000000;">"Your first chapter proves as delightful as your title. It's loads of fun with a cracking pace. Top stuff." </span><span style="color:#000000;"><br /><br /></span><span style="font-family:Arial;color:#000000;">"Lots of fun! The pace is great, the characters are alive. I really enjoyed it." </span><span style="color:#000000;"><br /><br /></span><span style="font-family:Arial;color:#000000;">"You guys are hilarious. Being an experienced reader, a quasi-experienced writer, but a crap book critic, I can't dissect it, analyze it, or feed it back to you in little bite sized chunks on a cracker. It's really funny in a brilliant way I am not genius enough to explain back to you."</span><span style="color:#000000;"><br /><br /></span><span style="font-family:Arial;color:#000000;">"Juvenile and lewd said your pitch - well we cannot say we weren't warned can we? It's also great fun. I think for me the book came alive when the ape turned out to be German, that was the LOL point for me. A pretty outstanding read."</span><span style="color:#000000;"><br /><br /></span><span style="font-family:Arial;color:#000000;">"It is all your fault that, at this time of night, I laughed so loudly that my baby son has just woke up."</span><span style="color:#000000;"><br /><br /></span><span style="font-family:Arial;color:#000000;">"Oh my goodness. Shelved just for the sheer amount of laughing this has generated with me already. I dread to think where you get your ideas from. Loved it."</span><span style="color:#000000;"><br /><br /></span><span style="font-family:Arial;color:#000000;">"Guys, the pitch is wonderful, the idea is extremely original. This is barmy enough to have a little place on my shelf, and I wish you the best of luck with it. "</span><span style="color:#000000;"><br /><br /></span><span style="font-family:Arial;color:#000000;">"Gentlemen: This is fun - bizarre, but fun! I've laughed out loud while reading this and it's got some great ideas. Good to see short paragraphs - lots of writers get this wrong but yours were spot on. The story is very funny and engaging and Julia & David are believable."</span><span style="color:#000000;"><br /><br /></span><span style="font-family:Arial;color:#000000;">"Can I just say that I'd have loved to have been in the pub when you worked this one out..."</span><span style="color:#000000;"><br /><br /></span><span style="font-family:Arial;color:#000000;">"I usually ask people to swap reads but your title just stopped me in my tracks. I think you two must do some strange stuff-but I like it. Light-hearted and just what I need when I'm snowed in. I think this will be the first and only time I give 12/10 for originality. There must be a market for stuff like this-surely everyone (well every bloke) would pick this up in the airport lounge to see what it was about. Thanks for brightening my day"</span><span style="color:#000000;"><br /><br /></span><span style="font-family:Arial;color:#000000;">"Now, this is the kind of shit I am looking for!"</span></p>