Rum Blazer
Soon to be a major motion picture!
A laugh-filled, heart-warming tale of how a friendship bewteen a small-time unlicensed Jamaican alcohol distiller and a boisterous cross-breed bloodhound / fox terrier led to one of the most unlikely sporting triumphs. Based very loosely on the true story of Jacob Cratchett, who won the 1923 Greyhound Derby two years after arriving in London from the West Indies, and enjoyed a short-lived fame with his cheeky claims that his dog, Rum Blazer, ran so fast becasue he fuelled him with his home-made hooch, the novel will appeal to dog lovers, sport lovers, rum lovers, and students of cultural and post-colonial studies.
"At the part where Rum Blazer is disqualified for not actually being a greyhound and has to be sold to a cruel landowner so Jacob can repay the prize money, I just cried and cried and cried" - Amanda Holden.
"They really knew how to make rum in those days" - Stuart Hall.
