The Workshop

by Andy Martin

In 1979, writer, composer and musician Andy Martin began to write down on a regular basis his more bizarre or interesting dreams. He only had another 15 months to endure Alton Secondary School before he threw an armchair at the headmaster and was expelled. By the end of 2014 he had accrued a stack of school exercise books filled with over 3 decades of dreams. To this he added many autobiographical events and incidents from his turbulent life, and fulminates vengefully with typically vituperative aggression against the monarchy, the clergy, politicians, loony left wingers, political correctness, youth subcultures and his perennial target - stupidity. The inclusion of a relentlessly bleak imaginary trek across a devastated wasteland after his death, with its mercilessly grim, poignant and ultimately tragic denoument, provides one of the most vividly brutal portrayals of profound loneliness and personal failure ever committed to print.

387 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2014