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Digging up Donald (Hardcover)

~ Steven Pirie (Author), Gabriel Strange (Creator), Storm Constantine (Editor)
4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)

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It’s the end of the world in Mudcaster, and the mother is beset by family troubles – Maureen's unborn babies have been stolen by demons in the night, and Robert has taken to playing with dead Uncle Norman. The father is talking to his pot plants, again, which wouldn’t be so bad had the mother not heard them answering back.

In dark times, the mother knows that only by drawing the family together, the living and the dead, may they overcome the trials of Ending. Together they are strong; divided they are weak.

Aunt Maude is easy to find, she was cremated just the year before. But others, like Cousin Hilderbrand, who had his brain confiscated by medical science, before he’d finished with it some said, prove more difficult. The real ancients are little more than rumours in their boxes. The family must deal with troublesome dead, demons, and worse still – the living – in order to save the day.

Digging up Donald is a gentle comedy – no demons were harmed in its writing.



About the Author

Steven Pirie lives in the northwest of England with a wonderful wife, a marvellous son, and an incontinent cat, which is not nearly quite so marvellous and wonderful.

He is a playful forty-two year old, as the son and cat will often tell, and blames this outlook for the hefty humour he likes to paste upon his words. He follows football and is active in a number of internet writers’ sites, though not at the same time.

It has been said he is to fiction writing what Al-Qaeda is to world peace – frankly, something of a nuisance – but not by reliable, sober sources. His short stories have appeared in a number of print and web-based magazines, none of which of which closed to business soon after. He clings to this as a positive sign.

Digging up Donald is his debut novel. A first, he hopes, of more still to come.


Product Details

  • Hardcover: 344 pages
  • Publisher: Immanion Press/Magalithica Books (January 7, 2004)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1904853110
  • ISBN-13: 978-1904853114
  • Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 6.3 x 1.2 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 1.5 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
  • Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.com Sales Rank: #4,674,161 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars "It was biscuits at ten paces.", July 7, 2005
By Donald L. Hardy (San Francisco, CA) - See all my reviews
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I knew, from the moment I read that opening sentence, that I was in for a thoroughly enjoyable experience with "Digging Up Donald".

I'd seen the book at Lunacon in March, and, to my regret, hadn't bought it (being a Donald, I was curious as to why anyone would want to dig one of us up). Finally, curiosity and regret got the better of me, and I ordered it from this site.

And loved it.

I like my days sunny, my coffee strong, and my novels "Oh my god, I have to put this down because I'm laughing so hard" humourous. And Pirie certainly delivers. From the quirky cast of characters, to the well developed village life, and through one of the more creative visions of the Afterlife in print, he handles a large and disparate group of elements deftly, never letting the lunacy get out of hand, but keeping it nicely balanced straight through. But the real clincher is Pirie's voice and use of language. One pictures him sitting in a pub, surrounded by his chums, and simply regaling them with the story, so individualistic is his turn of phrase. It's his story telling, more than the 'end of the millenium and impending Armageddon' storyline, which makes this novel an absolute delight.

And that's brilliant. Because that means there will be more stories forthcoming from this man, and given that this is a first novel, things will only get better.

Sign me up. And I'll take a custard cream, please.
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4.0 out of 5 stars Offbeat, Strange, and Wonderful, September 16, 2004
By K. Anderson (Minnesota, USA) - See all my reviews
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Offbeat, Strange, and Wonderful...

This book has got to be one of the most enjoyable yarns I've read in years. Fans of Terry Pratchett, rejoice! This book should be read by anyone who likes there humor just a little bit off. Highly enjoyable, and worth the price of admission.
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5.0 out of 5 stars A wonderful, quirky excursion, May 13, 2005
By Robert Kimsey (Missouri, USA) - See all my reviews
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Author Steven Pirie has penned a truly wonderful story in DIGGING UP DONALD. Comparisons to Pratchett and others are apt due to the style of humor (which is singularly British in my mind, though I might add Americans Tim Powers and James P. Blaylock as others who invite comparison), but Pirie's voice is all his own. The humor ranges from subtle to laugh-out-loud funny, and is always infectious. Pirie's skill in expostion brings to life as peculiar and fascinating a cast of characters as you're likely to find anywhere, with the forces of 'good' being as odd as those of 'evil,' though the former are delightfully so whereas the latter are sinister. In the midst of raising the dead and saving the world from demonic forces, Pirie crafts an honest and effective romance between his young protagonist Robert and a girl named Joan, daughter of one of Robert's adversaries.

I highly recommend this book.
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5.0 out of 5 stars A Great Read !
I've never visited an English village the likes of Mudcaster, but fantasy writer Steven Pirie has woven such a vivid and detailed tapestry of a tale in Digging Up Donald, I feel... Read more
Published on February 5, 2005 by Crystal Watson

5.0 out of 5 stars Best thing on my to-read stack!
Let's just say that "Digging Up Donald" was on my stack with Bruce Sterling's "Distraction", China Mieville's "King Rat", Robert Rankin's "The Hollow Chocolate Bunnies of the... Read more
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