Bob Servant: Hero of Dundee

In DELETE THIS AT YOUR PERIL, Neil Forsyth introduced the fictional character Bob Servant to the UK and North America and his creation quickly gained a critically-led cult following. Trainspotting author Irvine Welsh picked DELETE HIS AT YOUR PERIL for Esquire’s Funniest Books Ever Written and both the book and the Bob Servant character are being developed for television and radio by the BBC. Sixty-three years old and resolutely single, Servant spends his days with a small number of trusted associates pursuing unlikely business opportunities, giving stern views on current affairs and ‘chasing skirt’. His outlook on life is one of unbridled ambition and self-belief as he constantly battles the local ‘boo boys’ for the respect that he undoubtedly deserves.

BOB SERVANT: HERO OF DUNDEE charts the hilarious, whimsical and action-packed life-story of Bob Servant, unveiling with touching bravery, a fearless romp through a life full of incident, from his rise from a childhood of abject poverty, through a career in the merchant navy, his establishment of the largest window-cleaning round in Western Europe and his part in Dundee’s infamous Cheeseburger Wars of the early 1990s, to his current standing as an unemployed gigolo’ in Broughty Ferry.

Why Me? – The Very Important Emails of Bob Servant

Bob Servant is troubled. The economy is collapsing, his health is failing and around his hometown of Broughty Ferry, Bob is struggling to get the respect he deserves. Fortunately his email junk folder is bursting with offers of assistance from around the world. In these genuine emails, Bob Servant looks to the Internet’s worst con merchants and charlatans for answers to his many woes.

The author of the bestselling Delete This At Your Peril and the critically acclaimed Radio Four series “The Bob Servant Emails” is back with an all-new compilation of emails targeting a fresh batch of email spammers – the false lenders who have bravely stepped into the credit crunch; supposed doctors offering expensive ailments for Bob’s concerns; and fake foreign soldiers offering him military advice in his campaign against a local bowling club. They all find a man from Broughty Ferry who is ready and willing to give them his valuable time.

Delete This At Your Peril

Spam is the plague of the electronic age. It infects 90% of all emails and £150m was conned from Britons in 2006 alone. Into this wave of corruption steps the brave figure of Bob Servant, a former window cleaner and cheese burger magnate with a love of wine, women and song and a keen sense of fair play.

This wickedly funny and original humour book features the anarchic exchanges between Bob and the hapless spam merchants, who grow increasingly bamboozled as their offers of lost African millions, Russian brides and get-rich-quick scams soon tempt Bob into some outlandish schemes of his own.

The spammers may have breached his firewall, but they have met their match as Bob Servant rises heroically to the challenge, and leaves confusion in his wake.

Seriously funny, and satisfyingly merciless – this must be what happens if you combine the clever manipulation of Sacha Baron Cohen’s Borat with Henry Root’s letter writing. Christmas 07 has found its new star and his name is Servant!

Our Little Secret

n September 2005, Duncan Fairhurst succeeded in getting his father jailed for the rape and sexual abuse he (and another unnamed victim) endured at his hand. This is the story of a young boy who was betrayed by the person he loved the most – his father.
After years of sexual abuse which started when he was just four years old, Duncan made an escape, of sorts, into a world of drink and drugs, only conquering his demons after a girlfriend pushed him towards counselling. He went to university and later became a school teacher – in short he made a success of his life.

Then in a chance encounter in 2004, he came upon his father in the street, clutching the hand of a little boy.

This is both a shattering and an inspirational memoir in which Duncan reveals himself to the greatest degree possible. In so doing, Duncan has begun to rid himself of his nightmares as he has compiled this work however his real intention in recording his memories is to show others who have suffered like him that there is hope and that if they can only find the courage to speak out then they can finally stop the guilty from going free.
 

Callsign Hades

Afghanistan. War at its worst. Men at their Best.

There are many ways to die in Sangin. Assassinations, shoot-and-scoots from men on motorbikes, ambushes of bullets and RPGs, mortars and rockets. But it’s the IEDs that frighten us – the hidden traps that change our soldiers’ love for the ground, this ground we’ve been taught to worship every curve of, every fold, every crevice. This ground can save us from all the other deaths. But Improvised Explosive Devices have come between us, so now we don’t love. We have been betrayed…

Callsign Hades places the reader in an infantry officer’s boots, sharing every thought, ache, smell and taste of the frontline. An unforgettable book about combat and a brilliant character study. This is the only book on Afghanistan you will ever need to read.