Ian Martin: 83 books

Ian Martin spent three years as a hospital orderly and kept a ward diary chronicling the sights, sounds and smells that assailed him. Based on this record, "Henry Fuckit's Nursing Notes" is an unflinching account of nursing the sick and dying. Looking through the eyes of his disreputable...

When Henry Fuckit takes a job as storeman in the Simonstown naval dockyard, he has no intention of doing any work. This would debilitate him through the onset of chronic existentialist nausea. But to his surprise, he finds that no one there expects him to lift a finger. In the absurd world of the...

At the age of 63, Ian Martin takes a critical look at himself and his achievements. He is unimpressed. Next, he turns his gaze on his fellow human beings and feels no sense of pride at being a member of the species. As an atheist he can find no reason for his existence. So why doesn’t he throw in...

The setting is Cape Town in the late 1960s. Young Henry Fuckit has moved to South Africa after leaving the private lunatic asylum where he grew up. He soon discovers he has entered a world that is quite as crazy as the madhouse he has just left. In part two of The Life Of Henry Fuckit Ian Martin continues...

A prominent businessman is murdered in an apparent hijacking. For Matt Dreyer the death of his father seems like murder most foul. This disturbed Hamlet of the 21st century sets off on a tortuous and bloody hell ride to track down his father’s killers. Ian Martin's POP-Splat looks at today’s South...

This is Macbeth in 2030. The apocalypse has come and gone, and Earth is a smouldering wasteland. For the last remnants of the human race there is no possibility of a future. In desperation they set about butchering one another before they choke to death in the toxic vapours enveloping the planet. If...

Raised by three of the brightest minds of the century (only a little deranged), Henry O'Riley grows up at a private lunatic asylum deep in the African bushveld. Deciding that life is merely a pastime and not worthy of serious commitment, young Henry decides to take pleasure dabbling in and absorbing...

They've stopped holding late-night sessions in Parliament. Or have they? Imagine a House of Commons with the cameras switched off, the press and public excluded, but with the bar still open. What sort of vile abuse might hon. Members hurl at each other if they were pissed and off the record? In these...

Do you want to get rich quick, have a lot of possessions and live extravagantly? Frikkie and Plug will demonstrate how to go about it. But first you must accept that a social conscience is of no use to a South African entrepreneur. If you never let morality or ethics stand in the way of making a fast...

A young man walks into a gun store, curious to learn how easy or difficult it is to buy a firearm. The experience turns out to be very different to what he was expecting. Set in apartheid South Africa in the 1970s, this darkly humorous short story will entertain both the gun enthusiast and the anti-gun lobbyist alike.

Henry embarks on his first expedition, to Namibia, in search of Oxyaston. There he find inept doctors, Swapo sympathisers, a black cook named Angus, drunk policemen and a beautiful women behind a keyhole.

Are you afraid of the future? Be very afraid, because it’s already here!!! Journalist, Mark Todd, has pursued the gunrunner, Paul Gareth for nearly a decade … now, Todd is about to get his man. Or is he? What Todd has stumbled over is something far more sinister. Unfortunately,...

When civil servant Sedrick Williams arrives in the sleepy coastal village of Gansbaai he expects his two-week assignment investigating abalone poachers’ tax records to be like a vacation from his boring job in Cape Town. But he soon learns that abalone poaching is not the only criminal activity...

It’s another suffocating day in hell and Lady isn’t wearing much. When she surprises a peeping Tom at her bedroom window she is consumed with furious indignation. The unfortunate gardener is subjected to a lesson so sadistic and humiliating that he will wish his testicles had never descended, let alone instruct him to play the voyeur. It’s rough justice for this dirty little pig.