English Toss on Planet Andong — Dave Franklin

*** R-rated for politically incorrect humour and disturbing themes ***

A biting black comedy that centres on three hopeless expat teachers in South Korea.

Every year thousands of people travel to faraway lands to teach English as a foreign language.
The fools.
One such expat is Paul Taylor, a heartbroken Aussie looking for a fresh start in a South Korean classroom. The lack of training isn't much of a help, but it's the baffling natives and unhinged flatmates that really start to convince him he's crash-landed in another galaxy...

Packed with over the top characters, English Toss is a demented sitcom of a novel that revels in the extremes of expat dislocation.

'The author has an excellent ear for dialogue and some of his set-pieces are laugh out loud funny... Dave Franklin probably won't be the last author to offer his take on Korean life - he might just be the most caustic and honest though.' - Groove Korea magazine

'Startlingly different.' - Australian Crime Fiction

'...the writing has pace, and is hilarious in places. An expose on Korean culture on and ESL teaching this book is not. But as a simple black comedy, English Toss is worth reading.' - The Korea Herald

Word length: 107,000


About the author
Dave Franklin has written eight novels and five collections of short stories. With a politically incorrect take on life similar to the likes of Irvine Welsh and Bret Easton Ellis, Franklin's caustic, profanity-filled work, which often centres on dysfunctional loners, is not for the easily offended.