A collection of 100 short humorous pieces from the UK blogosphere. All profits from the sale of this book will be donated to the Comic Relief charity.
Contributors include Richard Herring, Andrew Collins (BBC 6Music), Emma Kennedy, James Henry (Channel 4's "Green Wing"), Abby Lee (Girl With A One-Track Mind), Catherine Sanderson (Petite Anglaise), Zoe McCarthy (My Boyfriend Is A Twat), novelist David Belbin, Anna Pickard (The Guardian), and a diverse selection of some of the UK's most talented bloggers.
A podcast is also available, featuring selected readings from the book as performed by their original authors.
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"Shaggy Blog Stories" I was tipped off about this book by a friend and boy, was it worth the money - especially as over half of that money has now gone to Comic Relief to help people in need in Africa and the UK. This is a terrific anthology: professional, funny, varied, entertaining. I'd recommend it to anyone - and if any of my relatives are reading this, guess what you're getting for YOUR birthday this year!! Helen
I've just finished it and, yes - it *really* is as brilliant as the blurb makes it sound! Just thank *Christ* this annual upswell of concern for the undernourished and abused allows us to pat ourselves on the back via projects like this about how caring and concern-ed we are, is all I can say. I just hope those cadaverous African bastards realise just *how* much they should feel indebted to us - let alone the good old British banks into whose coffers the bulk of those well-intentioned donations will be going. L.U.V. on ya - and here's to an even more successful Comic Relief 2008!! Bob
"Yay! First!" Ahem. I believe that is the standard bon mot from a blogger being 'first to comment'. Obviously, I haven't actually read this tome yet, but it'll be a corker, on that you can rely. Well done, Mike et al.
