It ay Christmas til Noddy says, but it ‘tis the season to always be shopping.
We found a box or two of 101 Things Birmingham Gave The World down the back of a very shiny sofa that we bought from Latif’s. Do you remember it? 101 was our first book, about all the best things Birmingham invented. Things like nuclear war, Batman, having a piss, tennis, and fizzy pop. And more. 96 more.
read a sample — here’s Bounder on how Brum invented Christmas
So here’s the plan. We’ll run over to Express Polyethene for a box of jiffy bags, and we’ll post one of these to you. You need to tell us your address and send us a few quid. Check out the options below.
Secret Santa Special – £7
One paperback book (inc P+P)
Santa’s Dirty Secret Two For One – £10
One paperback book for them (inc P+P) AND a DRM-free ebook for you to keep. Shhhhh.
Readers said it was disrespectfully respectful, irreverent, informative and laugh-out-loud hilarious and rather tenuous but a great read anyway.
Available for less than a tenner, it’s a good Secret Santa gift for:
- Your mom, your nan, and your milkman
- Interested parties
- Scousers
- Enjoyers of moderate amusement, albeit with annoying inaccuracies
- Brave boys who want to steal valour from Kidderminster
- Folks with an immature sense of humour
Made in Brum
We’re (obviously) very proud of Birmingham, and indeed the entire West Midlands Combined Authority area:
- Books bought directly from this link were printed by Kingate Press in Aston.
- The book cover features an exclusive collage by local artist Mark Murphy.
- Most chapters were written while people should have been doing real work at such local institutions as BBC Birmingham and Birmingham City University.
- Stewart Lee wrote a bit of it and your boyfriend likes him, even if you don’t really get it all (your boyfriend will find this joke funny by the way).
- Orders are shipped from just over the border, in the Royal Town of Sutton Coldfield.
Other things to note
We’re only posting within the UK (including Manchester) unless you contact us to arrange international shipping. You can alternatively buy print on demand books and Kindle locked ebooks from Jeffrey Bezos.
If you prefer fewer than 101 Things, we wrote 50 slightly longer essays about why Birmingham’s not Shit — that’s also a print on demand title at Amazon.
Merry Christmas!
