The Briggs Burst
31 Hilarious Tales of Urgency, Absurdity, and Lavatorial Misadventure
31 STORIES. 1 BLADDER. NO WORKING TOILETS.
Meet Barry Briggs: a man whose life is a relentless, high-velocity battle against the laws of physics, the tyranny of office bureaucracy, and the catastrophic failure of modern plumbing.
Barry isn’t a hero. He’s hold various lowly roles at the bathroom fittings company Thrones & Trends, and he has a unique problem: his dreams are a recurring nightmare of broken locks, missing toilet paper, and the most inconveniently timed biological imperatives in human history.
In this riotous collection of 31 short stories, you’ll follow Barry through a series of ‘toilet dreams’ so vivid they’ll leave you checking the lock on your own cubicle door.
Written in the tradition of classic British farce, The Briggs Burst is a masterclass in escalating absurdity.
Inside this collection, you’ll discover:
- The Olympic Miracle: How the sheer terror of a closed lavatory led to a world-record sprint that redefined athletics.
- The Italian Job: A business trip to a town without toilets that results in Barry becoming ‘structurally integrated’ into an ancient storm drain.
- The Inconvenient Cadaver: A murder mystery where the victim isn’t actually a victim at all, and the detective is in desperate need of relief.
- The Aviation Disaster: The day Barry single-handedly grounded an international flight with nothing but a faulty flush and a trembling knee.
Whether he’s pretending to be a parent to infiltrate a potty-training class or sprinting past 200-metre finalists in his corduroy trousers, Barry Briggs represents the ‘Containment Protocol’ in all of us.
Perfect for: Fans of Tom Sharpe, Howard Jacobson, and classic British sitcoms.
The ultimate ‘bathroom book’ – each story is specifically designed to be read in the time it takes Barry to find a working flush (or about 10 minutes).