A Bloke's Guide to Caravanning
Language: English
Published by Indigo Ink Books, 2026
- Softcover
- Comic
- New
Seller: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, GermanyAHA-BUCH GmbH
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nach der Bestellung gedruckt Neuware - Printed after ordering - A Bloke's Guide to Caravanning is for every man who's ever thought,'Hotels are too easy - I'd rather spend a small fortune to shit in a plastic box in a gale.'Congratulations, you absolute weapon. You've reached that glorious stage of life where your knees click like castanets, your doctor sighs before he speaks, and your other half has started sentences with 'We never do anything.' long enough that you've finally snapped and bought a caravan.Not a sensible holiday.Not a cheap getaway.A rolling, diesel-fuelled midlife crisis on wheels.This is the brutally honest, gloriously foul-mouthed manual to the Great British caravanning delusion: spending forty-odd grand to live like a tramp, with admin. From the moment you waddle into the dealership smelling of fear and overdraft, to the day you stand in a Welsh field in sideways rain wondering where it all went wrong, Owen Croft is there to hold your hand and take the piss.Inside, you'll discover:\* How to pick a tow car so crushingly dull it makes death look exciting\* The dark art of reversing while half the campsite offers 'helpful' hand signals\* The sacred rituals of the chemical toilet - and how not to turn yourself into a human sewage sprinkler\* Why every site has a Derek on Pitch 14, and why he's always better at this than you\* The truth about 'freedom of the open road' (spoiler: 49 mph and everyone hates you)\* The end-of-season moment where you seriously consider setting fire to the bastardPacked with horror stories, swear words, and painfully accurate truths, \*\*A Bloke's Guide to Caravanning\*\* is part confession, part survival guide, and part warning label you'll ignore anyway.You'll laugh. You'll wince. You'll recognise yourself.And you'll still book Pitch 13 again next year.Because you're a caravanner now.And there's no cure for that. …
Seller Inventory # 9798232706463
- Title
- A Bloke's Guide to Caravanning
- Author
- Owen Croft
- Publisher
- Indigo Ink Books
- Publication year
- 2026
- Condition
- Neu
- Binding
- Taschenbuch
- Language
- English
- ISBN 13
- 9798232706463
- Item weight
- 82 grams
- Dimensions
- 203x127x5 mm
A Bloke's Guide to Caravanning is for every man who's ever thought,
"Hotels are too easy - I'd rather spend a small fortune to shit in a plastic box in a gale."
Congratulations, you absolute weapon. You've reached that glorious stage of life where your knees click like castanets, your doctor sighs before he speaks, and your other half has started sentences with "We never do anything..." long enough that you've finally snapped and bought a caravan.
Not a sensible holiday.
Not a cheap getaway.
A rolling, diesel-fuelled midlife crisis on wheels.
This is the brutally honest, gloriously foul-mouthed manual to the Great British caravanning delusion: spending forty-odd grand to live like a tramp, with admin. From the moment you waddle into the dealership smelling of fear and overdraft, to the day you stand in a Welsh field in sideways rain wondering where it all went wrong, Owen Croft is there to hold your hand and take the piss.
Inside, you'll discover:
* How to pick a tow car so crushingly dull it makes death look exciting
* The dark art of reversing while half the campsite offers "helpful" hand signals
* The sacred rituals of the chemical toilet - and how not to turn yourself into a human sewage sprinkler
* Why every site has a Derek on Pitch 14, and why he's always better at this than you
* The truth about "freedom of the open road" (spoiler: 49 mph and everyone hates you)
* The end-of-season moment where you seriously consider setting fire to the bastard
Packed with horror stories, swear words, and painfully accurate truths, **A Bloke's Guide to Caravanning** is part confession, part survival guide, and part warning label you'll ignore anyway.
You'll laugh. You'll wince. You'll recognise yourself.
And you'll still book Pitch 13 again next year.
Because you're a caravanner now.
And there's no cure for that.
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About the Author
Owen Croft was forged in the relentless drizzle of Manchester's backstreets, where the Irwell murmurs secrets to the stone warehouses and the city's heartbeat thumps like a faulty piston. Born and raised amid the red-brick sprawl of the North, this unassuming bloke traded the roar of Friday night lock-ins for the hush of forgotten moors, where he could finally hear his own thoughts without the din of the world crashing in.
By day, Owen's a ghost in the machine-tinkering with words in a creaky attic studio overlooking the Pennines, far from the pixelated frenzy of social scrolls and siren calls. He's the sort who brews a pot of builder's tea strong enough to strip paint, cracks open a dog-eared Philip K. Dick or Raymond Chandler, and lets the pages pull him into alternate realities where Manchester's canals twist into wormholes or its cobbled alleys hide syndicate shadows. Writing, for him, is less a craft than a quiet rebellion: a way to wrestle the chaos of cyber-noir heists, gene-spliced grudges, and temporal double-crosses onto the page, all laced with that wry, rain-soaked Northern grit.
When he's not chasing plot twists through the ether, you'll find Owen hiking the wild fringes of the Peak District, notebook in hand, scribbling fragments inspired by the wind-whipped heather or a sudden squall. For Owen Croft, the best stories aren't told; they're unearthed, one sodden boot-print at a time. Escape with him. The world's mad enough as it is.
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