Post-it Notes from Underground

Simon Crump author

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Bluemoose Books Ltd

Published:25th Jun '26

Should be back in stock very soon

Post-it Notes from Underground cover

A satirical look at snobbery and class. Think Evelyn Waugh with a mop bucket and flannel. "Brilliantly special." - The Times

Simon's circumstances mean he takes a minimum wage job cleaning a factory. Every morning the cleaning team are left motivational notes by the supervisor. People and especially management only see them as cleaners but when Simon appears in a national newspaper their views change. It is a story of class, solidarity, kindness and comradeship where it it not the job you have that defines you but how you treat others that does.

"Brilliantly special" - John Self, The Times


"'This is a book for anyone who has ever worked for an idiot who doesn't understand what you do but tells you how to do it anyway. Or for anyone who has ever had a laugh at work, or taken pleasure from the in jokes. or found a kindred spirit there who makes to feel less alone. Simon tells one colleague that 'when I lived in Sheffield, I had a microwave that had a 'Chaos' button on it (it really did) ' What happened when you pressed that? 'Norman Wisdom came round and cooked your tea...

Part of me wishes all books could be like this, but then it wouldn't be as brilliantly special as it is." - The Times


"It has been quite a while since I've read a book in a day but this was a special one. Funny, definitely sad in that way I like, vulnerable, clever, touching. A book with a lot of life behind it. One of my favourite books this year so far. A gem."

-- Rónán Hession, author of Leonard and Hungry Paul, Panenka, and Ghost Mountain.

ISBN: 9781915693488

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Weight: unknown