Chester J Crump has spent a lifetime in cheese. His company, CC Cheese Ltd, was voted Door-to-Door magazine’s ‘Smallest Retailer of the Year’ from 1985-2007. Cheddar Today described him as ‘Chester Crump, aged 45’, while the UK’s most successful broadsheet, The Daily Telegraph, has never mentioned him at all.

He's a man whose wisdom knows no bounds, and it's wisdom he's prepared to share with you now for the price of a cup of tea. (Depending on where you buy your tea.) 'It's a Funny Old World' is a compilation of the least worst bits of Chester's one-time blog, 'Cheese Will Set Us Free'. Whether it's tackling the scourge of the cold caller, the incompetent tradesman, or the endless other lunacies that make up our modern world, Chester's been there, done that, and retired hurt.

Then there's Harold, his love-lorn magician neighbour, and his crazy brother-in-law, Bernard - who has published a book or two of his own if you look closely enough.

From the author of 'The Happiness Agenda', 'Nothing Serious', 'X Marks the Spot' and 'Bernard to the Rescue!' comes what many critics are calling 'his latest book'.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR
James A Ward is a published mainstream author, having written for children, teenagers and adults. He has also written comedy for TV and radio, both in the UK and mainland Europe. An after-dinner speaker and award-winning member of The Magic Circle, James has performed stand-up comedy across Yorkshire and at the Edinburgh Fringe.

He lives in a quiet village in North Yorkshire, where he writes, sleeps and occasionally looks out of the window to see if it's still raining.

Unusually for an author, he has no cats, dogs or small children, though he does have a wife who keeps him on the straight and narrow. (And a secret supply of biscuits she doesn't know about.) (Or didn't until that last sentence.)