Fishy Distractions

I bought this, having seen a recommendation on the Asylum blog:


Liked it, bored everyone I know reading excerpts from it, discovered that Henry Root (wet fish merchant) was really William Donaldson, and having read an excerpt from one of his other books was persuaded that I needed this:


which came this morning, and I am glad to report is just as hilarious as the Henry Root book, but longer...although, really, I should be reading this


which is funny too (in its own quiet way), and introduces me to the incredibly alien world of a Japan one thousand years ago.