Books

Paul Smith, The Butcher and the Ornithologist, 2012

Size 19,7 x 13,2 x 1,6 cm, 194 pages, illustrated, softcover

An ex-pat Englishman who hates his own name, finds adventure of a different sort in Hitler’s old holiday home, Berchtesgaden… a woman dealing with advanced cancer gains some respite with a Chihuahua mongrel called Elvis and a hospital porter from the Caribbean… an octogenarian on a three day trip with his son and daughter-in-law reminisces about the fighter pilot he’d almost become… an unfulfilled middle-aged middle-manager flirts with going active and joining Greenpeace… Four short stories, a 126 verse epic rendering of a bizarre cruise across the Black Sea to the Crimea, and a collection of poems… The Idea is to Escape with Your Soul Intact interweaves the comic, the unpredictable, the absurd, the tragic and the ordinary.