Archive for the ‘ABOUT THE BOOK’ category

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Review of the book in The Spectator

December 10, 2009

Complete and Utter Zebu by Simon Rose and Steve Caplin (Old Street Publishing, £8.99) is one of several books this year (and every year) to be fuelled by rage, frustration and disappointment. A zebu is a large and ungainly mammal whose unfeasibly chewy meat is often passed off as ‘steak’ in pubs and restaurants. The [...]

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Review in The Sunday Times

November 28, 2009

There’s a super review of the book in The Sunday Times which we’ve just spotted online. Complete and Utter Zebu is “a book at which you will laugh in disbelief (and possibly through gritted teeth).”
“Complete and Utter Zebu by Simon Rose and Steve Caplin (Old Street £8.99) is a book at which you will laugh [...]

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Our first newspaper review

November 15, 2009

The Sunday Telegraph reviewed Complete and Utter Zebu today as one of six paperbacks. It was the only one that got five stars.
Click on the image to see it more clearly.

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The Zebu has landed

November 4, 2009

The book came out on November 3rd, so there was no time for blogging, even though we’ve got some great Zebu stories in the pipeline. As well as a succession of interviews, we’ve been signing stock in many of London’s bookshops, a process we hope to finish on Wednesday. After that, for a while at [...]

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Our first review

October 23, 2009

We’ve just had our first review, on the Dizzy Thinks blog.
“One of the funniest things I’ve read for a very long time.”

He has apparently only skimmed it so far, so let’s hope he likes the rest of it

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The book of Zebu exists

October 17, 2009

A call from our publishers. They have the book in the office already, pretty amazing considering we only finished it nine days earlier.
We even managed to see it, thanks to a three-way with our editor Becky on ichat. When we’ll have it to hold and smell is another matter, given the situation with the post. [...]

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The book of Zebu

October 13, 2009

Complete and Utter Zebu, the book, is due out on November 3rd. In amidst all the examples of Zebu on the blog, we want to tell you about this as well.