Buy this book or the puppy gets it

I'm going to take a moment to pimp a rather fabulous book of short stories entitled Brother, what strange place is this? by Tom Saunders.

There are several reasons why you should buy this book:

1. It's good.
2. The short story is a dying artform in the U.K. There are very few literary magazines publishing short stories. Those that do are struggling to survive in the marketplace and are seldom to be found in high street bookshops. Also, very few book publishers are willing to risk publishing short story collections as the general perception is that there is no market for them. You would think that in this fast moving society where free time is the most precious commodity of all, you would think that people would appreciate their fiction in smaller, bite-sized chunks rather than committing themselves to a full novel. So why not not send publishers a message that there is a market for short stories by subscribing to one or two of those struggling literary magazines and buying some short story collections, starting with Brother, what strange place is this?
3. I have been down the pub with Tom Saunders and he is a bloody nice bloke.

So, go buy this book. You will be helping a talented writer (Tom) and a struggling, unemployed writer/composer/blogger (me) by doing it via this link to Amazon.co.uk.

Or the puppy gets it.