The new book from John Clark, aka Brick, this one being a prose novel and not a comic, though it is comic.
“This book is bonkers!”
– Mrs Trellis of North Wales
Over a decade of crippling austerity has pushed the residents of Gotham to the very brink. Alerted that yet another unwarranted tax swoop is imminent, they resolve to make a stand and resist the Crown’s agents. But how can reed cutters, woodworkers, seamstresses, ordinary village folk confront the swords of the Sheriff’s men without inviting a bloodbath?
Their elected strategy is hairbrained, as it would be coming from Tom de Moonstruck, the self-proclaimed neighbourhood noodler. But it is also cunningly baffling, artfully ludicrous, totally non-violent yet threatening in the extreme, and might just work. Their master plan is to bombard the Nottingham Castle Guard with fusillades of ‘steaming madness’.
Based on The Merrie Tales of the Mad Men of Gotham, this is the untold story (possibly) of that legendary rebellion, of the men, women and children who, by daring to challenge the iniquities of the State, put Gotham village on the world map. It is England’s Seven Samurai, except the brigands serve the King and the peasants do it for themselves, without the gore and subtitles, in English (sort of) and with a lot more jokes.
Read more here.
Mad Day at Gotham Village – £6.99 – available from our BookSHOP, from local Nottingham bookshops and tourist sites, and from Gotham village Post Office.
