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Issue Details: First known date: 2024... 2024 Servo : Tales from the Graveyard Shift
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'We've all filled up at a servo, but what's it like behind the counter, late at night, as a plethora of unhinged and maniacal souls totter in through the parting glass? David Goodwin worked the graveyard shift for six years in his home suburb of Werribee, and this is his hilarious and darkly mesmeric account of what happens behind the anti-jump wire.

'Most of us have done our time in the retail trenches, but service stations are undoubtedly the front line, as Melburnian David Goodwin found out when he started working the weekend graveyard shift at a servo in his home suburb of Werribee.

'From his very first night shift, Goodwin absorbed a consistent level of mind-bending lunacy over his six years: giant shoplifting bees, balaclava-clad assailants hurling water bombs of different-flavoured cordial through the sunroof of a BMW blasting Roxette's Joyride, and synchronised anarcho-goths high on MDMA loosing large rats in the store from their matching Harry Potter backpacks.

'Goodwin grew to love his servo, assuming the role of nocturnal ringleader of the depraved halogen circus, handing out free pastries and slurpees as he grew a backbone and finally became street smart.

'From psycho meatheads on a steady a diet of homemade speed and strong psychedelics to guitar-strumming, self-appointed mystics trying to grift their way to a better world, the creatures that tottered through the parting glass proved that servos will always attract those a few litres short of a full tank.

'For anyone who's ever toiled under the unforgiving fluorescent lights of a customer service job, Stale Sausage Rolls is a side-splitting and darkly mesmeric coming-of-age story from behind the anti-jump wire that will have you gritting your teeth, then cackling at the absurdity, idiocy and utterly beguiling strangeness of those who only come out at night.' (Publication summary)

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

    • Sydney, New South Wales,: Hachette Australia , 2024 .
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      Extent: 352p.
      Note/s:
      • Published February 2024
      ISBN: 9780733651199
Form: audiobook
    • Sydney, New South Wales,: Hachette Australia , 2024 .
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      Extent: 8 hrs and 53 minsp.
      Note/s:
      • Published 28 February 2024
      ISBN: 9780733651212

Other Formats

  • Large print.
  • Braille.

Works about this Work

The Night Shift Antonella Gambotto , 2024 single work review
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 4 May 2024; (p. 13)

— Review of Servo : Tales from the Graveyard Shift David Goodwin , 2024 single work autobiography
Bold’, ‘extremely Fun’, ‘luminously Written’ : The Best Australian Books Out in March Imogen Dewey , Nigel Featherstone , Joseph Cummins , Steph Harmon , Lucy Clark , Sian Cain , Yvonne C Lam , Adele Dumont , Bridie Jabour , 2024 single work review
— Appears in: The Guardian Australia , 6 March 2024;

— Review of 36 Ways of Writing a Vietnamese Poem Nam Le , 2024 selected work poetry ; The Silver River Jim Moginie , 2024 single work autobiography ; One Another Gail Jones , 2024 single work novel ; Appreciation Liam Pieper , 2024 single work novel ; Loving My Lying, Dying, Cheating Husband Kerstin Pilz , 2024 single work autobiography ; Servo : Tales from the Graveyard Shift David Goodwin , 2024 single work autobiography ; The Cancer Finishing School : Lessons in Laughter, Love and Resilience Peter Goldsworthy , 2024 single work autobiography ; Thanks for Having Me Emma Darragh , 2024 single work novel ; Lead Us Not Abbey Lay , 2024 single work novel ; Always Will Be : Stories of Goori Sovereignty from the Futures of the Tweed Mykaela Saunders , 2024 selected work short story
Bold’, ‘extremely Fun’, ‘luminously Written’ : The Best Australian Books Out in March Imogen Dewey , Nigel Featherstone , Joseph Cummins , Steph Harmon , Lucy Clark , Sian Cain , Yvonne C Lam , Adele Dumont , Bridie Jabour , 2024 single work review
— Appears in: The Guardian Australia , 6 March 2024;

— Review of 36 Ways of Writing a Vietnamese Poem Nam Le , 2024 selected work poetry ; The Silver River Jim Moginie , 2024 single work autobiography ; One Another Gail Jones , 2024 single work novel ; Appreciation Liam Pieper , 2024 single work novel ; Loving My Lying, Dying, Cheating Husband Kerstin Pilz , 2024 single work autobiography ; Servo : Tales from the Graveyard Shift David Goodwin , 2024 single work autobiography ; The Cancer Finishing School : Lessons in Laughter, Love and Resilience Peter Goldsworthy , 2024 single work autobiography ; Thanks for Having Me Emma Darragh , 2024 single work novel ; Lead Us Not Abbey Lay , 2024 single work novel ; Always Will Be : Stories of Goori Sovereignty from the Futures of the Tweed Mykaela Saunders , 2024 selected work short story
The Night Shift Antonella Gambotto , 2024 single work review
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 4 May 2024; (p. 13)

— Review of Servo : Tales from the Graveyard Shift David Goodwin , 2024 single work autobiography
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