bite me!
"Q. What If� Your favourite author went mad and started running away from invisible crocodiles? You had to make regular roadtrips to Canberra with a chain-smoking mum and a bunch of dead numbats? You lived in a town where the local genius thought you could crossbreed snakes and bees for colourful and useful purposes? The girl you're in love with is really a guy and vice versa? A. Bite Me. Seven hilarious and thought-provoking short stories from the pen of John Larkin."
(and there's more...)
"For many years Somerset Lenin has struggled to accept a few things; Barbara Cartland's success as a novelist; supermarket trolleys and their deranged wheels; and the election of a Buddhist-worshipping English Pope with a penchant for tattoos and body piercing. But these are mere trifles in the shadow of Somerset's living nightmare: crocodiles. These fanged fossils stalk the writing teacher through the streets of Sydney. In the corner of every trendy cafe and bookshop one or more are waiting, watching, primed for the moment when Somerset raises his pen and begins to write again. Cheeky satire and techno lunacy appeal in these short stories for young adults."
...hmmm... I'm looking at the book right now, and what you can't probably see from the miniscule picture on this page but which you'll have to believe me is there, is a surfie dude riding butt naked (literally) on his head... need I say more? (well, I probably should... but I won't because I'm lazy and I can't actually think of anything to say that isn't already in the blurb or the reviewer's reviews... Oh, but I will say Somerset Lenin makes his first appearance in this book, so that's pretty cool...)