Urbane, absurd, intelligent, satirical and darkly funny. Lovecraft presents an original voice with hints of Douglas Adams and Woody Allen and to those with a taste for the absurd it is a rare treat. The collection contains some prize-winning pieces and many that have never before been seen. Subjects tackled include: sex with bees, slimming for cannibals, your imminent death and Noel Edmonds.

For lovers of Douglas Adams and Wes Anderson, there comes a book which turns the world upside-down, shakes it and describes what falls out. What connects a Special Agent, a Viking, a suicidal writer, a psychopathic doctor, an Icelandic volcano and a monkey named 'Spank'? More than you might think. And certainly more than they themselves know. Although a volcano can't know ... Or can it, when it is designed by Witherspoon and Smythe? (Actually it can't. I'm trying to work around the epistemic black hole that the last paragraph created. Work with me here.)