B IS for BEER TOM ROBBINS MARKETING & SALES POINTS Tom Robbins Is a Major Bestseller and Has a Worldwide Cult

B IS FOR BEER TOM ROBBINS MARKETING & SALES POINTS Tom Robbins is a major bestseller and has a worldwide cult

Davina McCall and Tim Smit, from Eden Project, count a Tom Robbins novel as their favourite book

Over 150,000 books sold by No Exit Press alone THE BOOK 'Have you ever wondered why your daddy likes beer so much? Have you wondered, before you fall asleep at night, why he sometimes acts kind of "funny" after he's been drinking beer? Maybe you've even wondered where beer comes from, because you're pretty sure it isn't from a cow. Well, Gracie Perkel wondered those same things.'

Download high resolution image So begins bestselling author Tom Robbins' first fiction in five years (and perhaps his most audacious Reissue Date: 20 October 2010 ever), B Is for Beer explores various aspects of beer culture - ancient, modern, and otherworldly; brutal, Price: £9.99 infantile and divine - and dramatizes the surprising things that happen when the life of a feisty nursery ISBN: 978-1-84243-335-5 school kid named Gracie Perkel intersects with each. Binding: Paperback Format: B (198 x 129mm) Billed by Robbins as 'the first children's book about beer,' this inspired work taps into the barrel of life's Extent: 128 existential mysteries and is, of course, truly meant to sit proudly with his other novels in the grown-up Weight: 128g literature section. Publishing UK & South Africa plus Open Markets Rights: only PRAISE FOR TOM ROBBINS Sales UK & South Africa plus Open Markets Rights: only 'One of the wildest and most entertaining novelists in the world' - Financial Times

Market: Fiction 'Written with a style and humor that haven't been seen since Mark Twain' - Los Angeles Times BIC Code: FA: Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 'Tom Robbins has a grasp on things that dazzles the brain' - Thomas Pynchon 1945) BISAC Code: FIC000000: Fiction : General 'Impossibly imaginative' - Vanity Fair THEMA Code: FBA: Modern & contemporary fiction Country of UK 'One of the bravest writers in America' - Chicago Tribune Manufacture: 'One of the best writers of the 20th century' - Writer's Digest Rpt. Code: IP Previous 978-1-84243-331-7 TOM ROBBINS ISBNs: Marketing & PR Tom Robbins is the author of seven other novels including Another Roadside Tel: 01582 766 348 [email protected] Attraction, Even Cowgirls Get the Blues, Fierce Invalids Home from Hot Climates, Half Asleep in Frog Pajamas, Jitterbug Perfume, Skinny Legs and All, No Exit Press UK Distribution: Turnaround Harpenden 3 Olympia Trading Estate Villa Incognito and a novella, B is for Beer. No Exit Press have also published a Herts AL5 1EQ Coburg Rd Tel: +44 (0)1582 766348 London N22 6TZ collection of his writings entitled Wild Ducks Flying Backward and his Tel: +44 (0)208 829 3000 autobiography Tibetan Peach Pie. A Southerner by birth, Robbins has lived in www.turnaround-uk.com and around Seattle since 1962. noexit.co.uk/noexit.co.uk/bisforbeer @noexitpress 2 OTHER TITLES BY TOM ROBBINS

Jitterbug Perfume Still Life with Woodpecker Even Cowgirls Get the Blues 978-1-84243-035-4 978-1-84243-022-4 978-1-84243-024-8

Skinny Legs and All Half Asleep in Frog Pajamas Another Roadside Attraction 978-1-84243-034-7 978-1-84243-036-1 978-1-84243-129-0

Wild Ducks Flying Backward Villa Incognito Fierce Invalids Home from Hot Climates 978-1-84243-171-9 978-1-84243-102-3 978-1-84243-028-6