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I'd Rather Not

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I’d Rather Not

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Winner of the 2025 VPLA Prize for Humour Writing

Winner of the 2025 VPLA People's Choice Award

From one of Australia’s most wryly funny writers comes an original and utterly hilarious memoir of reaching for the stars while lying in a ditch.

I was sleeping in what might reasonably be described as a ditch, though I tried not to think of it in those terms for morale reasons …

Robert Skinner arrives in the city, searching for a richer life. Things begin badly and then, surprisingly, get slightly worse. Pretty soon he’s sleeping rough and trying to run a literary magazine out of a dog park. His quest for meaning keeps being thwarted, by endless jobs, beagles, house parties, ill-advised love affairs, camel trips and bureaucratic entanglements.

Sometimes a book catches the spirit of the times. I’d Rather Not is about work, escape and that something more we all need.

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Format

Paperback

Publisher

Black Inc.

Country

Australia

Date

4 July 2023

Pages

176

ISBN

9781760640354

Winner of the 2025 VPLA Prize for Humour Writing

Winner of the 2025 VPLA People's Choice Award

From one of Australia’s most wryly funny writers comes an original and utterly hilarious memoir of reaching for the stars while lying in a ditch.

I was sleeping in what might reasonably be described as a ditch, though I tried not to think of it in those terms for morale reasons …

Robert Skinner arrives in the city, searching for a richer life. Things begin badly and then, surprisingly, get slightly worse. Pretty soon he’s sleeping rough and trying to run a literary magazine out of a dog park. His quest for meaning keeps being thwarted, by endless jobs, beagles, house parties, ill-advised love affairs, camel trips and bureaucratic entanglements.

Sometimes a book catches the spirit of the times. I’d Rather Not is about work, escape and that something more we all need.

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Format

Paperback

Publisher

Black Inc.

Country

Australia

Date

4 July 2023

Pages

176

ISBN

9781760640354

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