How Much for a Little Screw?: Tales from Behind the Counter

by Graham Higson

Overview

Based on true stories ...

Strippers, grippers, knickers, knockers, nippers, nipples and ballcocks.

You can buy anything in the local hardware shop-well almost. It's the legendary Aladdin's cave with fixes for everything from a leaking pipe, a shattered groyne, a wobbly bladder (-er, that should be ladder) to a broken heart. And some remedies are not so easy to find, such as the cure for a case of the potentially lethal bad HED.

But in the provincial town of Little Sniffingham the predators are looming like scheming forces of evil, determined to pillage and plunder the town centre, smashing shopkeepers aside in their wake.

This book is one man's memoir-a treasure trove of anecdotes, some tinged with humour, others with disappointment, some are downright bizarre-his guide to observing life from behind a shop counter. We all know him: he's the innocent looking chap in the DIY shop who listens with sympathy and understanding to all your problems ... and maybe writes them down.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781503096974
Publisher:	CreateSpace Publishing
Publication date:	11/11/2014
Series:	How Much for a Little Screw? , #1
Pages:	358
Product dimensions:	5.00(w) x 8.00(h) x 0.74(d)

About the Author

GRAHAM HIGSON lives in an outlying Pennine village and shares this blustery environment with a growing collection of books, his understanding wife and a workshop piled high with offcuts of oak. Their two grown-up children are among his best friends.

Having been interested in writing since he was at primary school, he began interviewing celebrities when he was 15, going on to write professionally on wide-ranging subjects for various magazines over the following years. Oak Seer: A Supernatural Mystery was the first of his published novels, followed by Flither Lass, a historical novel set during the First World War. His fictionalized memoir How Much for a Little Screw? - Tales from behind the counter and its "equel" All Mod Cons are based on many years working as a hardware man. His biggest critic is his technical manager, Gerald the cat.

He's a member of the Open and University College Falmouth alumni, and his hobbies include woodworking, reading, watching lots of screen drama, publishing books for the Walmsley Society, and searching for that elusive moment of self-discovery, though he says he'll keep trying.