JUGGLING WITH TURNIPS Format: Paperback

Fiction. 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. It also contains one reference to Harry Dean Stanton.

"Fiercely funny stories of love, angst, dreams, delusions and failure but also a collection that is sharp, honest and true."—Ardal O'Hanlon

"These stories spring from a reckless comic imagination, there's a marvellous and irresponsible wit to these pieces...a stubborn refusal to take reality seriously. They are superbly funny and delightfully composed. He's the real deal."—Tommy Tiernan

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.