Mining My Own Business
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Xavier Toby
What’s life really like on a FIFO mine? In 2012, after touring his comedy shows through Europe, stand-up comedian Xavier Toby was broke and decided to take a job on a minesite to pay the bills.
In his memoir, Mining My Own Business, Xavier Toby is onsite somewhere in Australia working in admin to pay off his credit card debt.
Damo, Pando, Jonno, Robbo, Donk, Jokka and Dale are just some of the other blokes earning a crust, attending endless safety briefings, swapping tall tales and ‘missing’ the missus out there in the middle of nowhere. With Xavier, FIFO is not life on hold — it is life in hilarious overdrive.
Praise for Mining My Own Business:
… the writing is taut and funny, its narrative arc artfully constructed so that, despite its factual basis and episodic nature, it reads almost as a novel.
WILL YEOMAN, THE WEST AUSTRALIAN
Sharp story telling – I hope Xavier continues with his comedy anthropology.
JOHN SAFRAN
Where the f*** are all the pictures?
DONK
Funniest and best and only book I’ve ever read.
PANDO
Book details
PUBLICATION DATE: 2014
FORMAT: Paperback
EXTENT: 280 pages
SIZE: 203 x 133 mm
ISBN: 9781742585529
RIGHTS: World
CATEGORY: Out of Print,
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