Germany: What's It Really Like?: A Mole Reports

by Scott Pixello

Ever wondered what it would be like to up-sticks and move to a completely different country? Not just visit but really get to know a country and a culture, to get under its skin, to see what it’s like from the inside. Well, wonder no more. Step inside the Pixellomobile and let novelist Scott Pixello take you on a journey of cultural discovery. There will be surprises, laughs and possibly even cake.

This is not so much a history book or a guidebook, as there are plenty of those already but more of a reflection on features of German culture, some of which you would notice even on a brief weekend in Berlin and others that take years to spot. Often when you go to a different place, you know things look or feel different but can’t always put your finger on exactly how. This book attempts to ‘give you the finger’.

It’s a bit like the idea of an iceberg being only one tenth above the surface- the majority being invisible and likely to sink you if you don’t watch out. Armed with this book, you should never be hit by the iceberg of unpreparedness. Even if you have no plans to visit Germany right now, what is contained within these covers might make you think again. Hopefully, you’ll be surprised at all kinds of things you never knew and come to a new appreciation of Germany and its people. Hope is a wonderful thing.

219 pages, Paperback

Published January 27, 2023

About the author

Hi there Pixellites,

I’m a moderately-disturbed Brit. I’ve had seven books of non-fiction published with three different publishers under another name.
Luke I am Your Father is a humorous look at unplanned pregnancy, the main character in Gothic Girl 'goes goth' as a way to cope with pressures at home and school and Live Long and Prospero features a bunch of lunatics on a lighthouse facing automation. Rainbow is about a cow that can predict soccer scores and Gagfest UK is about stand-up comedy and a heckler who takes things too far. These books are not part of a series.
The Pixelloverse is currently expanding in a number of different and exciting directions. I've added parody self-help (The A-Z of Kids, Parts I & II), Biblical parody (Jesus: The Wilderness Years), a novel about Shakespeare, a school for geniuses (Smart School) and an ongoing series set in Roman-occupied Britain in AD 60, named after the hero, a would-be rebel without a toga: Keith Ramsbottom.
I love writing (and reading) but hate the self-promotion part of being a writer. I am painfully shy, don’t tweet and there are no pictures of me on the Net. I don’t even have a mobile phone (shock horror!). I do have a Facebook page (see www.facebook.com/scott.pixello).

I’m not a total hermit but for me, the words are the key things, not who produces them. I long to give up my day-job and write full time but for that I need to generate more sales online, which means readers, like you, need to spend some (but not much) of your hard-earned pocket money on Pixello products. I'm trying to write books that could not be written by anyone else. And maybe shouldn't be. I plan to release about three books a year until I run out of ideas, which sadly could be some time (I’ve got about 12 manuscripts at various stages of readiness). Watch the skies.