Hole Punch

"Over four hundred pages of pure mind-f***ery. This was the kind of strangeness that always leaves my brain feeling raw."

"This book made me laugh hard in public - Tracksuit smartphone-faces looked jealous upon my joy, for they were unable to attain that divine state of mirth, unable to to transcend with Hole Punch."

"I've been trying to write poems for years
Angry shroom-bot poems that fit together wildly
Like Garth Simmons' little interlocking stories
That capture the science fiction in fleeting moments of everyday life
Vitreous outrage at an existence that is fanged all the way down
But my poems never made it
Too polite, too thoughtful
My outrage scissors are blunt and wet
Made out of the wrong sort of childhood."

"If you’re looking for a raw, fragmented, nightmarish collection of stories that makes you feel simultaneously bewildered, scared, disgusted, amused and angry all at once, you've found it."

"The book is undeniably British. It paints a hilarious and depressingly bleak portrait of humanity, both now and in the future. It's almost enough to hope that another world will visit us with a War Brick before we get this chance. Note to self: never go back into debt."

"A dark and often bizarre series of micro-fiction tales. A highly inventive structure that catapults you from one reality to another while leaving you with a slight sense that just maybe the stories will all fall into a complete whole at any moment. Somewhat reminiscent of some of Douglas Adams’s work, or at least I thought so. Highly inventive, and totally engrossing. Well worth a read. But, be warned – you’re in for an intensely unusual reading experience"