In the Footsteps of Harrison Dextrose [Paperback]

This book is cooler that David Hasselhoff in a room full of otters. --Popbitch.com

Boyish satire… boyish humour abounds --The Big Issue

The Gulliver's Travels for today's world --The Gardners Gazette

It was my 18th birthday when I chanced upon Harrison Dextrose's The Lost Incompetent: a Bible for the Inept Traveller, little knowing that it would one day lead me to kill a man with a dead penguin... Inspired by explorer Harrison Dextrose s book a curmudgeonly account of travels through unfashionable lands in search of a lost drinking partner and Suzy Goodenough s carnal delights as the prize, Alexander Grey rolls off his sofa to follow in the acclaimed man s footsteps. This is no usual travel text, involving poodle-farming, the Frihedhag sisters, wilful consumerism, an unwanted but undaunted sidekick, one too many rodents and the 24-hour Iditamush sled race, starring a sausage dog. And along the way, Alexander may, or may not, help to save the world. It s that kind of a trip.

Nick graduated from King's College, London, in Electrical & Electronic Engineering. By mistake. He managed to turn this around, becoming a journalist, on the music press (Sounds, Select) then women's magazines (New Woman, Options), before settling as a TV writer with Radio Times and the Daily Mail. He has also written for The Guardian, The Sunday Times, Time Out and others, and scripted the Sunday morning children's TV show, Dog & Dinosaur, for BBC Choice.