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How to Hide from Humans
How to Hide from Humans is a comedelosophy* book by a sheep, telling other sheep how to hide from humans.
It's not really for people.
"The best 77p I have ever spent. If this is silly, then it is the best kind of silly." Nathan Filer. Author of The Shock of the Fall. 2014 Costa Book of the Year Winner.
*comedelosophy = a comedic philosophy book. Makes you laugh, makes you think.
It's not really for people.
"The best 77p I have ever spent. If this is silly, then it is the best kind of silly." Nathan Filer. Author of The Shock of the Fall. 2014 Costa Book of the Year Winner.
*comedelosophy = a comedic philosophy book. Makes you laugh, makes you think.
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First published January 9, 2013
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About the author
Craig Stone
5 books1,524 followersCraig Stone left school at sixteen with a head full of rocks, a general dislike towards anyone telling him what to do and a belief none of it mattered - because one day he would write the greatest book in the world. He is still trying to write the greatest book in the world.
Craig moved to Spain and worked for a man with a missing finger called Juan, a short gangster who owned the town. The morning after he was almost killed by a freight train trying to find Perpignan airport, he thought he should start writing some of his adventures down; but he was sixteen, so his writing only existed on the back of chewed beer mats.
A decade later, around the age of 26, Craig found his first literary agent Patrick Janson-Smith, from The Christopher Little Agency. Together, they found Craig his first book deal with Val Hudson at Headline UK for the novelty book How to Hide from Humans.
A few year later, Craig returned from living in Kauai, Hawaii, to find himself homeless. He lived in a garage, on a few sofa’s and eventually Gladstone Park in North London. While in Gladstone Park Craig wrote his first novel, The Squirrel that Dreamt of Madness. He self-published this book from his sister’s spare bedroom, and received hundreds of five star reviews.
Patrick left Christopher Little and Craig needed to find a new agent. He soon found Sonia Land at Sheil Land Associates – the oldest Literary agency in London. Meanwhile, his future wife read The Squirrel that Dreamt of Madness and slid into his DM’s on Twitter.
Armed with his new agent, Craig Stone’s second novel, Life Knocks, was shortlisted for the 2012 Dundee International Book Prize, judged by Stephen Fry and Philip Pullman.
Today, Craig is married with two children and lives in Kingston, West London. He is a mental health advocate and writes for the likes of The Guardian and Al Jazeera. His third novel was titled Deep in the Bin of Bob, and his fourth novel is due to be published in 2023, titled The Last March of the Pirate Snails.
The Last March of the Pirate Snails entirely rhymes, and is the first novel of its kind.
If every tale needs a meaning, then Craig’s life story has taught him this: don't sell your dreams for the illusion of safety. We’re all going to die, but before that, is opportunity – life, is not a queue to pointless oblivion. If you want to be a writer, write. If you want to be a doctor, get doctoring. Better to fail at something, than live for nothing.
Thank you for your interest in his writing.
Craig moved to Spain and worked for a man with a missing finger called Juan, a short gangster who owned the town. The morning after he was almost killed by a freight train trying to find Perpignan airport, he thought he should start writing some of his adventures down; but he was sixteen, so his writing only existed on the back of chewed beer mats.
A decade later, around the age of 26, Craig found his first literary agent Patrick Janson-Smith, from The Christopher Little Agency. Together, they found Craig his first book deal with Val Hudson at Headline UK for the novelty book How to Hide from Humans.
A few year later, Craig returned from living in Kauai, Hawaii, to find himself homeless. He lived in a garage, on a few sofa’s and eventually Gladstone Park in North London. While in Gladstone Park Craig wrote his first novel, The Squirrel that Dreamt of Madness. He self-published this book from his sister’s spare bedroom, and received hundreds of five star reviews.
Patrick left Christopher Little and Craig needed to find a new agent. He soon found Sonia Land at Sheil Land Associates – the oldest Literary agency in London. Meanwhile, his future wife read The Squirrel that Dreamt of Madness and slid into his DM’s on Twitter.
Armed with his new agent, Craig Stone’s second novel, Life Knocks, was shortlisted for the 2012 Dundee International Book Prize, judged by Stephen Fry and Philip Pullman.
Today, Craig is married with two children and lives in Kingston, West London. He is a mental health advocate and writes for the likes of The Guardian and Al Jazeera. His third novel was titled Deep in the Bin of Bob, and his fourth novel is due to be published in 2023, titled The Last March of the Pirate Snails.
The Last March of the Pirate Snails entirely rhymes, and is the first novel of its kind.
If every tale needs a meaning, then Craig’s life story has taught him this: don't sell your dreams for the illusion of safety. We’re all going to die, but before that, is opportunity – life, is not a queue to pointless oblivion. If you want to be a writer, write. If you want to be a doctor, get doctoring. Better to fail at something, than live for nothing.
Thank you for your interest in his writing.
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January 3, 2015
This book is NOT written by a human
but by an anonymous sheep under the pen name Craig Stone.
This book is NOT fiction.
I searched for the usual disclaimer, but didn't find one.
This book is NOT meant to be read by humans.
It says so in the foreword, but I took it in my fat hands and read it anyway, so sue me, sheep!
This book is NOT boring, listless, or untrue.
It's the opposite.
This book IS a Good Read
+ it has lots of nice pictures of sheep in it!
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July 23, 2014
One of the strangest yet funniest books I have probably ever read! I would just love to be in Craig Stone's head for just one day! My life would never be the same again!
March 16, 2014
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