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Digging Up Donald (Hardcover)

by Steven Pirie (Author), Storm Constantine (Editor)
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  • Hardcover: 344 pages
  • Publisher: Immanion Press (1 Jul 2004)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 1904853110
  • ISBN-13: 978-1904853114
  • Product Dimensions: 23 x 16 x 3 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 1,771,104 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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It’s the end of the world in Mudcaster, and the mother is beset by family troubles – Maureen's unborn babies have been stolen by demons in the night, and Robert has taken to playing with dead Uncle Norman. The father is talking to his pot plants, again, which wouldn’t be so bad had the mother not heard them answering back.

In dark times, the mother knows that only by drawing the family together, the living and the dead, may they overcome the trials of Ending. Together they are strong; divided they are weak.

Aunt Maude is easy to find, she was cremated just the year before. But others, like Cousin Hilderbrand, who had his brain confiscated by medical science, before he’d finished with it some said, prove more difficult. The real ancients are little more than rumours in their boxes. The family must deal with troublesome dead, demons, and worse still – the living – in order to save the day.

Digging up Donald is a gentle comedy – no demons were harmed in its writing.

About the Author
Steven Pirie lives in the northwest of England with a wonderful wife, a marvellous son, and an incontinent cat, which is not nearly quite so marvellous and wonderful.
He is a playful forty-two year old, as the son and cat will often tell, and blames this outlook for the hefty humour he likes to paste upon his words. He follows football and is active in a number of internet writers’ sites, though not at the same time.

It has been said he is to fiction writing what Al-Qaeda is to world peace – frankly, something of a nuisance – but not by reliable, sober sources. His short stories have appeared in a number of print and web-based magazines, none of which of which closed to business soon after. He clings to this as a positive sign.

Digging up Donald is his debut novel. A first, he hopes, of more still to come.


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5.0 out of 5 stars You'll Dig This Book, 5 Aug 2004
Imagine if Victoria Wood had allowed her prodigious comic talent to head in a darker direction; one that involved the occult, the Final Conflict, demons, the restless dead, heroic Chosen Ones...and an immensely powerful, er, fish. If Ms Wood had taken this creative path then instead of Dinner Ladies, she might have written something like Digging Up Donald.

Something "like" Digging Up Donald, because any comparison or speculation can only give you a hint of the originality and cunning humour you encounter in Steven Pirie's writing.

Like all good writers, Mr Pirie has a distinct "voice". From the first page of Digging Up Donald, you are aware of entering a different world. There are many things you will recognise; but this is not a place you have been before.

The humour is relentless: usually gentle, though frequently laugh-out-loud funny too. And behind it all is a quiet, serious message about the enduring nature of "family values". These are not narrow, repressive or censorious, however; Mr Pirie's family values are inclusive, tolerant and very human. They hold that the common-place and homely can harbour an extraordinary magical power. Ultimately - and I hope I'm not giving too much away - the novel celebrates the redeeming power of the imagination.

Mr Pirie's style is a delight. The apparent simplicity is a vehicle for some incisive poetic touches. Sandwiches "sulk"; there are "vulture dusks"; and when the sun sets, the rims of clouds burn like "a golden rupture in a sky stained crimson and bloody".

So, all in all, and if I haven't made myself clear yet - Digging Up Donald is a brilliant read. Buy it. You won't be disappointed.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Digging up a Gem, 28 April 2006
I have discovered what, from now on, is the best book I have ever read in my entire life (and I've not even finished it yet).

Any story that begins with "It was bisuits at ten paces. The Mother dunked a custard cream aggressely and peered over the rim of her teacup." promises to be a unique read and the promise is lived upto ten fold.

The book in question is called "DIGGING UP DONALD" (for those of you that missed that "DIGGING UP DONALD!!!!!!)

This novel defies the laws of logic and common sense in a way that hooks the reader and refuses to let go. It's a little bit fantasy, a whole lotta funny and contains the vaguest hint of a whisper of a rumour of horror that works so well I am almost lost for words.

Like a slow working nut tolerance the comedy builds up the chuckles until, by pages 152-153, I found myself suffering the readers version of anaphalatic shock. I had to put the book down and wait for the tears to stop rolling down my cheeks and the laughing to subside to a level of sanity. Please note: i was at work at this point and would have been refered to a doctor if anyone had of walked in the office, I'd turned as blue as Mr Onion's legs from lack of breath.

For those of you that missed the title; it's DIGGING UP DONALD
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