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The Giro Playboy
"The Giro Playboy recounts the (mis)adventures of a
delusional drifter and his wanderings from the north-east of London (where
the streets are paved with gold) and on to Brighton and the badlands of Essex.
Along the way he falls in love, drinks a lot of beer, eats too many sweets,
ponders the meaning of life on the dole and gets admitted to hospital for
a painful condition - all the time measuring his life in cigarettes.
"An utterly charming miniature picaresque and a portrait of a life
blissfully unmoored, The Giro Playboy is a twenty-first century beat classic
in the making."
Faber & Faber
The Giro Playboy is my first book, and after I serialised and self published it in pamphlet form, and then reissued these pamphlets in a limited edition boxed set (which happened to be a stencilled pizza box), Faber and Faber released it in March 2006.
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Shorty Loves Wing Wong
This short book is a kind of prequel to the Giro Playboy, an adolescent coming
of age story set in my home town. It features illustrations by Jim Medway,
who specialises in incredibly well observed drawings of chavs with cats'
heads!
The book is already available as a highly collectible limited edition artist's book, published by To Hell with Publishing/Paul Stolper, and is available from To Hell with Publishing.
Faber are set to release a different version for Valentine’s Day 2007.
The Birds
I am working hard on The Birds at the moment. It's a book about love.
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The Giro Playboy
by Michael Smith
Paperback 208 pages
Published
March 2006
Faber and Faber
ISBN 0571228224
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