Book Store

Welcome to my Book Store.

All of my books are available in a number of formats and can be bought exclusively online.

Traditional paperback copies can be ordered exclusively online. Orders are printed on demand and delivered in 2-3 days. Order in bulk to reduce the postage and packing costs!

You can read the book immediately in PDF format on your computer, laptop or mobile. All you need is a free copy of Adobe Acrobat reader installed on your device.

If you don’t have a Kindle or Apple device, you can read them in e-book format by install free e-book reading software to your laptop or computer when you make your purchase.

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All my books are also available to buy in Amazon Kindle format. If you don’t own a Kindle, but you do have an Amazon account, you can buy and read them via the free to install Kindle App on both Android and Apple mobile devices.

For Kindle formats, please visit my Amazon Sales site.

Here is my price list and you can browse and purchase from each book’s synopsis further down the page.

Sam Plank’s Disco

Everybody loves a good play on words, and famous quotes, or lines from famous songs, offer great opportunities to deliver a cringingly corny pun or two.

Down at Sam Plank’s Disco, DJs Jonny and Griff spin the vinyl, happily singing along to a very eclectic set list from a wide range of artists; from Sinatra to Madonna, The Stones to The Beatles and Sir Cliff to Sir Elton.

Yet, it seems that Griff and Jonny have only the most tenuous grasp of the correct lyrics to all of these songs. Don’t tell them they’re wrong though, because they have a very detailed – if barely convincing – story to fully explain their bizarre version of the lyrics.

Sam Plank’s Disco is guaranteed to make you groan and giggle in equal measure – assuming you can work out the lyrics, that is. And if you can’t, then the we’ve helpfully provided the answers at the back of the book.

A.R.S.E.D! Following A Failing Football Fan

There comes a time in a man’s existence when a wife, child, career and mortgage should take priority over travelling the length and breadth of the country watching his beloved Wigan Athletic, sitting in front of the TV watching any old football match that happens to be on and spending the rest of his waking hours immersed in his fantasy football competition. Griff reached that point in his life some time ago.

So why is he quite happy to give up a lucrative job in the South of France and fly home to uncertain job prospects at the height of the biggest global financial crisis to hit the world since the Great Depression of the 1920s?

Why does he attempt to lie, cheat and con his way out of his domestic and parenting duties simply to watch Shrewsbury Town play Gillingham on TV? And why on earth does he have such an unhealthy obsession with the fortunes of Manchester City’s Emmanuel Adebayor?

Find out in A.R.S.E.D!, as we follow a failing football fan.

Virgin Parents – What It Doesn’t Say On The Tin

Helen and Chris are not stupid people. So, when they learned that they were going to have a baby, they knew that their lives would change forever and that they would have to acquire many new skills.

What they didn’t fully appreciate was the extent to which their lives would change, or how many new things they would have to learn, nor how quickly they would have to learn them. And all this with little or no help from other people.

Neither did they have any idea how their social lives and TV habits would be transformed beyond all recognition.

Follow their adventures from the conception to contraction and beyond. You never know, if you are a Virgin Parent yourself, you may even learn something useful along the way.

For as long as I can remember, certainly since the advent of email, the end of the working week has always been marked by someone circulating a joke, or an amusing picture or article – the Friday Funny, as it became known. I have now evolved this into a regular blog that I call 5-4-Friday, a light-hearted list of 5 favourite things or 5 pet hates ideally related to some burning issue of the day or week.

View From the West is a regular football-based blog with the subject matter normally focusing on events at the club I support, Wigan Athletic, as I see them unfold from my vantage point in the West Stand of the DW Stadium. For non-Wigan fans, wider football issues and talking points will also be given an airing. For a bit of fun, I will scour social and digital media and various fan forums to identify a Hit of the Week, a Miss of the Week and a Pic of the Week.

54T is an occasional variation on 5-4-Friday in which a friend of the site, a minor celebrity (or, god-willing, if it takes off, a not-so-minor celebrity) will tell us which four famous people they would invite round to share a Friday evening chippy tea. We will learn what they would feed them, what drinks would be chilling in the fridge and, when the stimulating conversation dries up, what music they would listen to, what films would they stick in the DVD player and what entertaining games they would play.

3in! is a friendly football prediction competition that has been running for around twelve years now. Participants have to predict the outcome of just three fixtures from the weekend’s football programme with bigger rewards available the more off-the-wall you are prepared to go. It’s my type of gambling – all hypothetical, no real money involved. All the news for the 3in! players can be found on Chris Griffin Says…

Dream League is now beyond its 30th year. It is a fantasy football competition with a difference. Each of the 16 Owners (who should be old enough to know better) buys a squad of players and pits their team against the other 15 Owners in a traditional, home and away league season. Goals your players score are netted off against goals your defenders concede. Out-perform your opponent in the week and you win. Simples! Again, all the up to date news can be found here.