Limmy book to Century

Century has signed a deal for an “inventive and funny” book by Scottish comedian Brian Limond.

Editorial director Jack Fogg acquired world rights to Daft Wee Stories from Melanie Rockcliffe at Troika.

Limond, known as Limmy, “came to the world’s attention with his anarchic website and podcasts” and went on to write and star in a sketch show for BBC Scotland.

Daft Wee Stories will be a mix of stories, thoughts, musings and anecdotes. It will include short stories “next to longer ones, stupid ones next to thoughtful ones, some written in the first person, some in the third person, some with illustrations, and some the size of a tweet sitting in the centre of the page”.

Fogg said: “Limmy has one of the most original, thoughtful and brilliant comic minds I’ve encountered.

“He can flip from side-splittingly funny to genuinely profound in the space of a paragraph.
“I’m sure that with Daft Wee Stories, we’re seeing the start of what will become a very exciting and unique writing career.”

Daft Wee Stories will be published as a Century hardback in July 2015, with an Arrow paperback in 2016.