Witty, tender and daring essays from the British David Sedaris 'A lovely writer: supple, stylish and almost effortlessly witty.' Daily Mail 'Made me laugh out loud and then properly cry.' Jennie Godfrey When it comes to the challenge of being a man, Adam Farrer always seems to find a way to fall short. Broken Biscuits vividly recounts Adam's struggles to live up to masculine expectations, real or imagined. From the calamity of his first serious relationship to an obsession with Prince that sees everyone questioning his sexuality, and from the repercussions of his adult circumcision to his doubts about his ability to survive the apocalypse, this candid and personal collection of essays is astonishingly far-reaching and riotously funny. Holding up a mirror to Adam's own body image, his relationship with his family, his sense of self-worth and the mortifying experience of arriving at a teenage party wearing strawberry-patterned short shorts, this book is about growing up and trying to define yourself as a man but somehow always missing the mark. Adam's first book won the 2021 Northbound Book Award Cold Fish Soup was also an editor's choice in the Bookseller and previewed by Publishers' Weekly Adam is one of Manchester's best-known emerging talents, very well networked and endlessly energetic Festival-friendly and keen to do in-person events, radio broadcast and all other forms of media to promote. Masculinity, gender equality and male mental health are all hot-button topics which are hotly debates.

Target audience is thirty-something men and fans of David Sedaris and similar essayists. Readers of the LRB, Granta, The Fence, Vittles and other similar publications. Competition: The Stirrings; The Descent of Man; Male Tears; Man Up; O Brother; The Rings of Saturn; When You Are Engulfed in Flames. Catherine Taylor; Melvyn Bragg; David Sedaris; Benjamin Myers; Jenn Ashworth; W. G. Sebald; John Niven; Jack Irwin; John Jeremiah Sullivan; Adrian Chiles; Patrick Radden Keefe; George Orwell.