Juggling with Turnips

An overweight Mafioso wants to dance like Michael Flatley. A comedian hires an unreliable heckler to disrupt the high profile gig of a rival. A young boy develops a bizarre addiction to communion wafers. Just some of the stories from Juggling With Turnips. A book with very little juggling. And no turnips. Juggling With Turnips contains twenty-three stories of short comic fiction. And stuff in-between about what’s going on with the writer of the stories. As he tries to the find someone to read the stories. Just one person. Anyone. Is that too much to ask? It also contains some extracts from his vast and pointless archive. Seven poems. And one reference to Harry Dean Stanton.

Former comedian Karl MacDermott, once described as 'the Gummo Marx of Irish comedy' is an Irish humour writer. He has written for TV and Radio in Ireland and the UK and has written two books of comic fiction. His book, JUGGLING WITH TURNIPS, published by Eyewear Publishing in 2018, was a success with both readers and critics, described 'as a very funny book' by The Sunday Independent and having 'gloriously comic moments' by The Irish Examiner. His most recent book is 58% CABBAGE (Eyewear Publishing, 2021). He is currently writer-in- residence at his home in Dublin.