Shelf Life How I Found the Meaning of Life Stacking Supermarket Shelves

Simon Parke has written satire for radio and TV, including Spitting Image, and was awarded a Sony Radio Award for his work on Simon Mayo's 'Big Holy One'. He was a priest in the Church of England for twenty years and then worked in a supermarket for three years. He had to: he needed the money. But a side-result was a full-page column in the Saturday Mail that's been running for months. It's warm, it's funny and it very gently describes the human foibles of the other people he was working with - and by extension, of course, our own. Shelf Life is the broader and deeper version of Simon Parke's column. Once you've read it, I guarantee that every time you go into a supermarket you'll look round, intrigued, wondering if it's the same as he says it is...and what this tells us about us all. He's a very talented man and his book will appeal not only to the thousands who've loved his column but also the thousands who want to make a bit of sense out of life, whether in the supermarket or out of