The Authors

Gene was born in the exotic town of Bedford. He rapidly escaped - though only as far as Suffolk, where he was condemned to attend a rural comprehensive school. In spite of this, he managed to get into Bristol University, where he was sectioned into the psychology department. There he gained the only first of his year after the lecturers got confused and mistook him for a student rather than a case study. He has remained in academia ever since, and now lives with his partner and two children somewhere in The Mysterious East.

Andrew came into this world fully formed; a bit like Venus except for the beautiful bits. He too survived the state school system, shining in the subjects of skiving games, acne and chemistry. His ability at science sent him to Bristol University to study the dark arts of the test tube, crucible and distillation apparatus (particularly the distillation apparatus). He still lives in the British university system where he survives in The Cold North as a plaything of physicists.

The two authors met at university whilst standing outside a geology lecture wondering why they were here when they’d each signed up for something completely different. After much beer-drinking, curry-eating and world-travelling in search of the perfect night out, they decided to write a book about such a quest. This is that mighty tome.

At this point, Gene would just like to make it very clear that the rudest jokes in the book come from the depraved mind of Andrew. This is funny really, because Andrew is keen to take credit for all of the rudest jokes, but would like to disassociate himself from all the ‘pseudo-literary nonsense’, for which he blames Gene.