Crow: Being the True & Surprising Adventures of the Terrible Pirate Crow

by Michael Wombat

A mélange of words strung together into affecting sentences and thrilling clauses. All the letters are in there, in the usual frequency for written English, with perhaps a slight bias to X, due to a curious diversion into a discussion of the xenopus. The discerning reader will find amusement herein from oddly-juxtaposed concepts and surreal happenings. Also, there's pirates.

Kindle Edition

Published September 8, 2019

About the author

A Yorkshireman living in the rural green hills of Lancashire, Michael Wombat is a man of huge beard. He has a penchant for good single-malts, inept football teams, big daft dogs and the diary of Mr. Samuel Pepys. Abducted by pirates at the age of twelve he quickly rose to captain the feared privateer ‘The Mrs. Nesbitt’ and terrorised the Skull Coast throughout his early twenties. Narrowly escaping the Revenue men by dressing as a burlesque dancer, he went on to work successively and successfully as a burlesque dancer, a forester, a busker, and a magic carpet salesman. The fact that he was once one of that forgotten company, the bus conductors, will immediately tell you that he is as old as the hills in which he lives. Nowadays he spends his time writing and pretending to take good photographs. You can have a good laugh at his pathetic blog or his photographs, but most of all please go and mock him mercilessly on Twitter or Facebook. Michael Wombat has published over one book. Other authors are available.

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Reviews

[Michael Wombat · Rating 5 out of 5]

Comedy pirates, what's not to like? Witty and thrilling.

[Miranda Kate · Rating 5 out of 5]

A small collection of pirates tales to make you smile and get in a pirate mood.

Michael Wombat's descriptive abilities come to the fore in this little collection. He uses wonderful words to conjure up the characters and their antics, and the banter between Crow and his Captain keeps you laughing. From Unicorns with crooked horns, to deceptive sirens, there's a lot of packed into these little tales. I particularly liked how the last tale ended.

If you like things piratey and a bit tongue in cheek, this is for you.

[Richard · Rating 4 out of 5]

I love the tongue-in-cheekery of the stories in this little collection. Michael Wombat has loads of fun messing around with all the tropes, both ancient and modern, of pirate stories and maritime adventures.

My only problem is that most of this material is also reproduced in The Museum of White Walls which means that I read it twice. Oh well, at least I got to meet the profane goldfinch.