If you are “overworked and underlaid, or slogging away in a job you don’t like to buy things you don’t need to impress people you can’t stand” and if you’d like to hear more ‘Observations of a Very Short Man’ from Nigel Marsh (Issue 14), then head to Adyar Bookshop, Sydney in a couple of weeks.
Thursday 17 April 6-7pm
Adyar Bookshop
230 Clarence St, Sydney 2000.

Nigel Marsh : Issue Fourteen : Introduction

Nigel Marsh is the author of two books, ‘Fat, Forty and Fired’ and ‘Observations of a Very Short Man’. He wrote the first after finding himself overweight, over 39 and made redundant when the company he’d been brought to Australia from the UK to run, was merged with another. It’s a brilliant, candid account of one man’s struggle to find himself in the rubble, become a better dad to his four kids, a nicer husband to his wife Kate, give up drinking and lose a few pounds. The book quickly went almost to the top of the best-seller lists, just pipped by the ubiquitous Dan Brown. After taking a year ‘out’ Nigel was offered the position of CEO of advertising agency Leo Burnett. Over the next three years he turned the company around, even winning ‘Agency of the Year’ twice and introduced the concept of Earth Hour to the world. At the peak of his career he then did the unthinkable, he left work again, this time to write his second book (which has recently been published) and to attempt to make a living from work with ‘a point.’