Work! Consume! Die!: I Am Actually Almost Completely Insane Now

<p>Brace yourself, Frankie's back, and he's more outspoken and brilliantly inappropriate than ever. There are fears that this Christmas could see the start of a double-dip recession, or worse still a double-dip-with-misery-sprinkles and f**k-where's-my-job?-sauce. Why not chuckle into the howling void as taloned fingers reach up to consume you with Frankie Boyle's new book, Work! Consume! Die! In Work! Consume! Die! stand-up comedy's favourite pessimist, Frankie Boyle, offers his outrageous, laugh-out-loud, cynical rant on life as he knows it. He describes your reality as viewed through a bloodshot eye pressed against a shit-smeared telescope, focused on hell: * 'Charlie Sheen's life consists of going on huge drug benders with groups of porn stars. If he straightened himself out he could have a really mediocre career as a bit-part Hollywood actor. Playing the role of Martin Sheen's corpse. He's crazy like a fox! And also actually crazy. What a tragic waste, not being Charlie Sheen is. How majestic it will be for him to die, possibly quite soon, knowing that when they make a movie of his life, it will be a porno.' * 'The X Factor will be allowed to show product placements. That's powerful advertising. Last series I realised that looking at the judges alone had made me subconsciously buy a gnome, a scrag-end of mutton, a vacuous mannequin and a suspected gay.' * 'The Taliban are running out of bullets. Operation 'Get our troops to absorb them with their bodies' is finally paying off. The Taliban are finding it impossible to get hold of essential supplies -- at last we're fighting on equal terms. But let's not get complacent. Just because they're running out of bullets we mustn't assume our boys won't get shot. Remember, the US troops have still got plenty.' A no-holds-barred tour de force of comic writing, Work! Consume! Die! is Frankie Boyle at his brutal, taboo-busting best. This is nothing more or less than the clanging call to arms of a dying mechanical God.</p>

Biographies & Memoirs

Frankie Boyle

Arts & Literature

HarperCollins, Publishers

Harper Collins Ome

My Shit Life So Far Lib/E

I don't think anyone can have written an autobiography without at some point thinking, "Why would anyone want to know this shit?" I've always read them thinking, "I don't want to know where Steve Tyler grew up, just tell me how many groupies he f**ked!"So begins Frankie's outrageous, laugh-out loud, cynical rant on life as he knows it. From growing up in Pollockshaws, Glasgow ("It was an aching cement void, a slap in the face to Childhood, and for the family it was a step up."), to his rampant teenage sex drive ("In those days if you glimpsed a nipple on TV it was like porn Christmas."), and first job working in a mental hospital ("Where most evenings were spent persuading an old man in his pants not to eat a family-sized block of cheese."), nothing is out of bounds.Outspoken, outrageous, and brilliantly inappropriate, Frankie Boyle, the dark heart of Mock the Week, says the unsayable as only he can. From the TV programs he would like to see made (Celebrities on Acid on Ice: just like Celebrity Dancing on Ice, but with an opening sequence where Graham Norton hoses the celebrities down with liquid LSD"), to his native Scotland, and the Mayor of London ("Voting for Boris Johnson wasn't that different to voting for a Labrador wearing a Wonder Woman costume."), nothing and no one is safe from Frankie's fearless, sharp-tongued assault.Sharply observed and full of taboo-busting, we-really-shouldn't-be-laughing-at-this humor, My Shit Life So Far shows why Frankie Boyle really is the blackest man in show business.

My Shit Life So Far

HarperCollins UK and Blackstone Audio

There are fears that this year could see the start of a double-dip recession, or worse still, a double-dip-with-misery-sprinkles and f**k-where's-my-job? sauce. Why not chuckle into the howling void as taloned fingers reach up to consume you with Frankie Boyle's new book, Work! Consume! Die!In Work! Consume! Die! stand-up comedy's favorite pessimist, Frankie Boyle, offers his outrageous, laugh-out-loud, cynical rant on life as he knows it. He describes your reality as viewed through a bloodshot eye pressed against a shit-smeared telescope focused on hell:"Charlie Sheen's life consists of going on huge drug benders with groups of porn stars. If he straightened himself out, he could have a really mediocre career as a bit-part Hollywood actor. Playing the role of Martin Sheen's corpse. He's crazy like a fox! And also actually crazy. What a tragic waste, not being Charlie Sheen is. How majestic it will be for him to die, possibly quite soon, knowing that when they make a movie of his life, it will be a porno.""The X Factor will be allowed to show product placements. That's powerful advertising. Last series, I realized that looking at the judges alone had made me subconsciously buy a gnome, a scrag-end of mutton, a vacuous mannequin, and a suspected gay.'"The Taliban are running out of bullets. Operation 'Get our troops to absorb them with their bodies' is finally paying off. The Taliban are finding it impossible to get hold of essential supplies-at last we're fighting on equal terms. But let's not get complacent. Just because they're running out of bullets, we mustn't assume our boys won't get shot. Remember, the US troops have still got plenty."A no-holds-barred tour de force of comic writing, Work! Consume! Die! is Frankie Boyle at his brutal, taboo-busting best. This is nothing more or less than the clanging call to arms of a dying mechanical God.

Work! Consume! Die!

Cookbooks, Food & Wine

<p>Glasgow, 2015. When Valium addict Felix McAveety's best friend Marina is found murdered in the local park, he goes looking for answers to questions that he quickly forgets. In a haze of uppers, hallucinogens, and diazepam, Felix enlists the help of a brilliant but mercurial GP; a bright young trade unionist; a failing screenwriter; semi-celebrity crime novelist Jane Pickford; and his crisis fuelled downstairs neighbour Donnie.\nTheir investigation sends them on a bewildering expedition that takes in Scottish radical politics, Artificial Intelligence, cults, secret agents, smugglers and vegan record shops.</p>

Meantime

Baskerville

The Future of British Politics

Humor & Entertainment

Humor

Unbound

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