Prichard Press
Welcome to the hilarious new series of books authored by Jon Prichard, a long-term resident of Bangkok and South East Asia and part-time rugby player. Published by DCO Books, Jon has written two books to date.
In the first book, Taking It Up The Blindside, which became an overnight success (Amazon Top 30 all time rugby books), Jon pens an outrageously funny, semi-autobiographical account of his rugby career and exploits in the UK and Asia. In this new, second outing, Building Babylon, Jon tells all in a rollercoaster of a read and a no-one-ever-dared-tell collection of stories from building sites in the UK to the boardrooms of Bangkok after spending a career in the Orient.
No nonsense and to the point. Fruity, funny and full of frolics.
Taking It Up The Blindside
Taking It Up The Blindside is a true, honest and light-hearted exposé of one man’s rugby exploits in the UK, South East Asia and around the world. Not for the feint of heart.
Back Up The Blindside
This is the sequel to the first Blindside book relating further humorous and risque tales by our enthusiastic rugby writer Jon Prichard.
Building Babylon
True, hilarious short stories about real life experiences in the ‘construction game’. The personal evolution of a silver-spoon-fed public schoolboy diving headfirst into the blue-collar world of mystical trades and guilds and suffering the outrageous slings and arrows of being a toff in a real man’s world. The tales have to be true…because you just couldn’t make it up!
Some of Our Better Reviews After Taking It Up The Blindside
Background to the Book
Even before the advent of the modern professional rugby era, rugby players were really unknown or unlikely writers. Even today many celebrities don’t write their own books but get clever people who have more than three adjectives and can spell and type to do that for them, while they sit and dictate over a pint or five.
Oh, and those blokes are all superstars so they do of course have some interesting stuff to talk about and the wonders of playing the big stage at the biggest rugby stadia. BUT owing to the very nature of their status, their contracts and issues of bringing people and institutions into disrespect, many of the books are heavily sanitised and leave a lot to the imagination.
Jon has taken a different path and possibly exposed touring activities like never before. Well, there are other club players of course who have written guff but rarely, he suspects, about actual tour antics … and they are legion.
Asia is home to huge respect for family and elders and with so many nationalities in the Orient, there is little time or energy for racism per se. So, whilst UK, Europe (excluding the French who always do as they please), the land of Oz and the USA is blighted with intense and frankly ridiculous political correctness, Jon seems to have woven a more liberal and free speaking cloth.
Book #2 is already in edit form and could be on the book-shelves or Amazon’s pages soon – but you have got to get out there and buy this first book – the starter in probably a long line of drivel …
