Ye Olde Funeral Book of Bollox is a collection of various tales of the best and worst funerals the world has ever seen. Here is a remastered and greatly augmented sequel to ‘Funeral Foul-ups’, brought bang up to date and with a whole load more chips and sauce.

This newly engorged and pumped-up folio of sheer bollox brings together outstanding funeral-related crap-fests, and includes short stories, poetry, philosophical howdy-dos and original artwork by the author; all of which are included to better highlight a fascinating and chaotic funeral ‘universe’. Taken from newspapers and online annals from around the world, and featuring some personal accounts, the stories retold reveal the bruised and battered underbelly of a (sometimes) slipshod profession in mourning; a profession which, in some parts of the world, is still determined to carry on its doings with unwarranted secrecy and opaqueness.

Herein is an index of all that is good and all that is bad in the trade, with the inclusion of some interesting nuggets of useless information such as some of the oddest things heard at funerals, and a story about how mourners ended up watching a porno movie. Read also of funeral fracas, body swaps, an undertaker killed by a coffin, and a shop front corpse, and you will understand why Ye Olde Funeral Book of Bollox is the perfect coming together of all that is funny, weird, wrong and right in the wider field of international undertaking.

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