Bøker av Robert MacLean

Lovable slacker Toby Tucker, an incompetent tour guide and guardian angel to a group of travellers in Greece, has a love affair that threatens to make a solid citizen of him."I had to keep reminding myself that I was reading a book and not watching a movie-Robert MacLean's 'The Cad' is that entertaining."-David Hallman"I really enjoyed reading The Cad. I found myself laughing throughout."-Joanne Chase"The Toby Series is one of the most enjoyable series that I have ever read. Shades of Wodehouse and yet so modern and well..bizarre.. Had me in fits of laughter all the way through. What a bad boy !! What a great series !!"-Kindle Customer"I never thought I could enjoy a writer as much as I enjoy P.G. Wodehouse, but I've found him in Robert MacLean. Since I first discovered The President's Palm Reader, I've read all his books and found myself being amused, laughing out loud..."-Winslow"This book is deliciously insane. The life and loves of a lazy tour guide in Greece presented in a collection of crazy experiences. I loved it."-Ldub"The Cad offers us Toby, a perfect bounder, acting as tourguide who flies by the seat of his pants."-Blaine Carwell"Toby is irrepressible and irredeemable, a delightfully comic creation whose most exasperating quality is also his most endearing: the more we get to know him, the less we expect from him."-The Montreal GazetteCover by Peter Ratcliffe www.peterratcliffe.com

These were written for stand-up, and I've performed a few on YouTube. Some of them appeared in Krax Magazine, Braquemard, The Hellenic Times and Still. A successful piece of entertainment must either engage our depths or insult them. The best do both. For me this book is an unloading, an evacuation, a voiding of yesterday. One hesitates to go poopoo in public, but one feels so much lighter that one forgives oneself.Yours in levity, RM

Ladies and Gentlemen, I've been reciting these brief adventures of my alter ego on YouTube, and rather than waiting for editors to become broader-minded, have decided to publish them here.Plans for filming the Toby novels are on hold until things loosen up, and I've been amusing myself meanwhile with these episodes.I'll be delighted if they amuse you, too.R

A funeral-home romp, with all the tasty details. Short-listed for the London Observer's PG Wodehouse Comic Novel Prize. Stage version at Samuel French."From the moment I started to read this book I was crying with laughter."-thedeludedfool"I nearly died laughing."-Gail James"A first-rate contemporary farce, one of the hardest-if not THE hardest genre to pull off."-J. Maas"If you like dark humour and have a taste for knowing what you really shouldn't want to know you will love it. Brilliant characters and Great writing, be prepared to laugh your socks off."-thedeludedfool, Amazon UK Theme song, for optimistic female voices, to the tune of Shuffle off to Buffalo: When you're in the mortuaryYou may find it cold and scary -No, no, don't recoil.Off you're gonna shuffle, Shuffle off this mortal coil! Comes the undertaker laterAnd he'll drain your radiatorAnd he'll change your oil.Off you're gonna shuffle, Shuffle off this mortal coil! First he'll put you on the table, Then he'll pump out your insides.He'll make your condition stableWith formal-de-hyde! You'll be magotty and wormy -It's enough to make you squirmy -When you're in the soil.Off you're gonna shuffle, Shuffle off this mortal coil! Just because you feel immortalDoesn't mean you'll never die.You'll get hard and rigor mortal -No use to won-der why! When you're pushing up the daisiesYou'll be lying back and lazy -No more moil and toil.Off you're gonna shuffle, Shuffle off this mortal coil!Shuffle off, shuffle off, shuffle off, shuffle off, Shuffle off this mor-tal coil! Cover by Peter Ratcliffe