Armchair Hero

Brilliantly funny - an amazing first novel. It's like a cross between Terry Pratchett and Douglas Adams; can't wait for the next one. One of the few books where my children were laughing out loud as hard as I was William Coles www.wcoles.com . Armchair Hero is more than a fun read. It is brilliantly comic with some splendid original ideas based on the theme of a reluctant ordinary hero in extraordinary situations. A fitting debut for our mysterious Official Scribbener to Heaven who goes by the name of WgWL. Andrew Luddington. A whole new world of comic fantasy: . When you are an aspirant mystic nutgatherer who through a computer cock-up is assigned as the sole Security Guard to Heaven it is bad enough. When only days before you are to be relieved of your duties Heaven is attacked by an army of imps and demons you know that your luck is not in. . When the planet Glob is put in danger because the imps and demons have stolen the whole process that keeps your world spinning in the right direction and you are appointed as Heaven’s Hero to save Glob from crashing splat into the universe wall you know that your luck is out. . Oh and then the only two aides to help you on your way for your impossible task: a winged floral armchair with far too many apps and a theoretically extinct bird. . And just to round it all off your only hope of help in the impossible task it to enlist a crew from among the most dangerously mad mob of pirates ever to infest the planet. . Quite a task…and the clock is ticking.