‘Matchlessly witty. . . one of the country's funniest writers.’ - The Guardian Published by Ebury Press In bookshops now Tick Bite Fever Tales from a chaotic African childhood  Click to see the above image bigger and sharper Read what the UK press has said so far here. Not to blow my own trumpet - they've done that for me, bless 'em - but this book has had nothing but good reviews. Tick Bite Fever, David Bennun's memoir of growing up in Africa, is published by Ebury Press, a division of Random House. To quote from the introduction: The book isn't really about me. It is about Africa, about my family, about the mishaps and calamities and freakish occurrences in which I was so often an unwitting pivot or accidental catalyst. It is about a life - my own - where I have figured largely as a baffled spectator. Others meet danger with cunning and fortitude; I overcame it through a mixture of blind luck and not falling over too often. My childhood passed in a haze of delirium familiar to me from several intriguing diseases, including the one which provides the book's title.Tick Bite Fever is part anecdote, part travelogue, part survival manual and wholly unlikely. But it's all true, to the best of the author's recollection. It features: the Christmas Chicken Man, Mad Titus, Achilles the world's fighten'est dog, and many more improbable but genuine oddballs since the reign of Queen Victoria For press enquiries, please contact Charlotte Dollin at the Ebury publicity office on 020 7840 8730 (+44 20 7840 8730 outside the UK), or email David directly here To order a copy from Amazon.co.uk, please click here.
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