![]() ![]() This is my first encounter with this author and I would read him again, I also secretly (not so secret now) hope there is a follow up to this book. Some of the brutality to the animals is a bit uncomfortable reading (in any kind of context) but taking the book as it is with silliness you can get through it, after all it the small matter of survival. The nerdy boy with the crush on the teacher, the hippy parents, the teenage bullies that need to be addressed or obeyed and of course the threat of being killed by rabid flesh eating animals from cows to rats. This book is hilarious, disgusting and so UN PC - it has everything rolled into one story. Something goes wrong at the abattoir, a weird plague amongst the cows gets out and spreads among domestic animals and soon everyone in Glasgow (and Britain) is at risk of being humped, mauled and or eaten. What follows is an unlikely team against the zombie animals. If they aren't screaming at the neighbors for their murder and consumption of flesh(animals of course), forcing him to be a Vegan and wearing God awful natural fiber clothes his mum is bartering for food in the shop with vegetables. Geldof is a 15 year old Vegan boy, embarrassed by his hippy parents. More information can be found on his website: You can follow him on twitter or on Facebook at I love zombies books (as you may have noticed), so when I heard about this one I thought I just had to give it a read. ![]() This is not an exhaustive list, but it tells you pretty much everything you need to know. ![]() Michael likes books, fencing, guitars and cheese. He currently lives in Nairobi, Kenya, and is married with three young children. He has also reported from many other countries, including South Sudan, Somalia, South Africa, and other places that don’t begin with an ‘S’. He won Fish Publishing’s 2008 international One-Page Fiction Prize with We Will Go on Ahead and Wait for You - at 295 words, the most difficult thing he’s ever written.ĭuring his time as a foreign correspondent, Michael lived in Scotland, France, Bosnia, Hungary, Switzerland and Kenya, which points to itches that can only be scratched by moving around. Michael’s short fiction has appeared in publications such as The Telegraph, Chapman and Underground Voices. His fourth novel, Hell’s Detective: Lost Angeles, will be along presently. Since then, the sequel, World War Moo, and an unrelated standalone novel, Wannabes, have hit the shelves. His debut novel, Apocalypse Cow, won the Terry Pratchett First Novel Prize. Michael Logan is an award-winning Scottish writer, whose career has taken him across the globe. Standing in the way are rampaging hordes of animals, a ruthless security agent and an army ready to shoot anybody with a case of the sniffles on the off-chance the virus has mutated. During her bumbling quest to unveil the truth, she crosses paths with Terry and Geldof, and together they set out to escape a quarantined Britain with the evidence and vital data that could unlock a cure for the virus. When Britain begins a rapid descent into chaos and ministers cynically attempt to blame al-Qaeda, Lesley stumbles upon proof that the government is behind the outbreak. When scientists with warped imaginations accidentally unleash an experimental bioweapon that transforms Britain's animals into sneezing, bloodthirsty zombies with a penchant for pre-dinner sex with their victims, three misfits become the unlikely hope for salvation.Ībattoir worker Terry Borders' love life is crippled by the stench of death that clings to his skin from his days spent slaughtering cows teenage vegan Geldof 'Scabby' Peters alternates between scratching furiously at his rash and baiting his overbearing New Age mother and inept journalist Lesley McBrien struggles forlornly in the shadow of her famous war correspondent father and the star journalist at the Glasgow Tribune.
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