A Robins Amongst the Pigeons

by John Robbins

'Long Walk to Freedom', 'Angela's Ashes', the Barak Obama one - what do all these memoirs have in common? Yes, that's right, ZERO ROBINS. These books became bestsellers without one reference to the highs and successes of comedian, broadcaster, darts genius, poetic tour de force and voice over artiste John Robins (contact agent for bookings). Imagine, then, the potential for an autobiography penned by the man himself. After being turned down by all leading publishers because they didn't have the infrastructure to cope with a book of this magnitude, Robins has made it available himself. Ride the roller coaster of drugs, darkness and Daewoos in this literary cry de cour. And place yourself amongst A Robins Amongst the Pigeons. (Forward inspired by David Mellor)

Genres: Comedy, Biography, Nonfiction, Humor

52 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2016

About the author

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Please see: John Robbins


John Robbins has published comics and short stories in titles such as Emerald Eye: The Best Irish Imaginative Fiction (Aeon Press, 2005) and Ink Brick: A Journal of Comics Poetry. His graphic novella Unlucky Unlikely was released by Blackshapes Books in 2014, and a year later he published A Hand of Fingers, collecting a selection of his work from magazines and anthologies. More recently via Kindle Direct Publishing he let loose Death to Everyone, a novella. John lives mobile phone-free in Dublin, Ireland.

source: Amazon

Reviews

[Megan Thomas · Rating 5 out of 5]

A work of both literary and comic genius of which the world has not seen the like since Blackburn himself. Su-perb.

(I'll even forgive him for the five occasions on which a capital letter was missed from proper nouns including, most notably, from the rock band Queen. Surely more likely to be a profound statement about how nothing in this life can be truly perfect, rather than a careless oversight by one of Oxford University English department's most notable alumni. Surely.)

[Lisa Twyning · Rating 5 out of 5]

Johnny JR Robins at his best. Love it.

[bojana · Rating 5 out of 5]

to quote the author himself: superb

[Beks Giggle-Snort · Rating 5 out of 5]

Quallo book by a hammer legend.
Was told multiple times by my partner to stop reading because i was laughing too loudly. Absolute masterpiece.

[Grace · Rating 5 out of 5]

Outstanding!

[Dimitris Skipis · Rating 5 out of 5]

A comic genius, as he will be the first to admit.

[Lisa O'Hare · Rating 4 out of 5]

I read it all with imagined intonation of John Robins live readings on the radio and I laughed a lot.

[Jorge Walsh · Rating 4 out of 5]

“I have my flaws, but in a good way, like Sherlock Holmes or Cracker.”

[Dylan Bell · Rating 4 out of 5]

As a completionist and retro oner, this was a lot of fun :)

Cheers Johnny JR