Me and Mickie James
coming from Jonathan Cape in July 2008
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                       Me and Mickie James: The Cast

Con - cheese shop owner - ‘Some of these cheeses are booby-trapped.’

Ivan Norris-Ayres - musical impresario - ‘It would require some nudity and a matter of intercourse with a person of the contradictory sex if you know what I mean?’

Gus - a giant - ‘She gave me her heart and it is torturing me. Please. Take it.’

Ishtar - an Iraqi - ‘Whatever you do don’t go into this room. It’s very important, yes?’

Penelope - a magician’s assistant - ‘For his next trick Harlan Harlan will disappear up his own ass.’

Harlan Harlan - a magician - ‘I’m a magician. I think like a magician. I think that one day she’ll disappear.’

Koji - a Sumo wrestler - ‘I wonder if you could help me. I need someone quite desperately to manipulate my intestines.’

Jurgen - kitchen manager on a cruise ship - ‘There’s two things you need to know about me. One, I drink my own piss. Two, you do wrong by me, I’ll make you drink it too. With a straw..’

Octavio - a world famous opera singer - ‘I want to be a castrato. If I don’t do something, then my career will be over.’

Suc - a transsexual - ‘I’m a transsexual, not Rambo.’

Roger Korman - ‘You’re going to be massive. I’ve got this feeling.’

Mickie James - hunchback and keyboard player in Down By Law - ‘I want you to like me for who I am.’

Me - singer in Down By Law - ‘There are more important things than money. We’ve got that gig with Shawaddywaddy. We’re going to be rich.’

                  Me and Mickie James Launch Party

Come along to the official ‘Me and Mickie James’ launch at Waterstones, Market Street, Leicester on 22nd July, 6pm.
DAZED AND CONFUSED
“Gummerson hits upon an awkward ingenious prose style that makes biting comedy out of both the surreal and the mundane.”
 
3SIXTY
“Me and Mickie James is guaranteed to put a smile on the most miserable of faces.”
 
AESTHETICA
“Everyone needs a light-hearted book sometimes and Me and Mickie James does the trick.”
 
GT
“Gummerson’s dry humour will have you chuckling from page one to the end.”
 
CHROMA
“Won’t be forgotten in a hurry.”