Thomas Friesen has three goals in life: get a job, make friends, and find a good book to curl up with. After landing a job at READ, the newest hypermegabookstore, he feels he may have accomplished all three. All is not peaceable within the stacks, however, as discontent steadily rises, aimed squarely at talk show host Munroe Purvis, whose wildly popular book club is progressively lowering the IQ of North America. But the bookworms have a plan?plots are being hatched and the destruction of Munroe is all but assured. As Thomas finds himself swept along in the malstrom of insanity, he wonders if reading a book is all it's cracked up to be.

Corey Redekop’s debut novel Shelf Monkey (ECW Press, 2007) was awarded the Gold Medal for Popular Fiction at the Independent Publisher Book Awards. His second novel Husk (ECW Press, 2012) was named one of the best books of 2012 by Amazon.ca. Currently a publicist for Goose Lane Editions, he bides his time in Fredericton, NB.

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"You'll probably enjoy this one, as I did....Redekop has managed a credible debut."  “The Toronto Star

"Corey Redekop provided this year's gonzo fun with his Shelf Monkey, an utterly enjoyable novel about radical bookworms."  “Locus Online

"Witty first novel."  “The Record

"Invigorating."  “Literary Review of Canada

"This will be the start of a very promising career for Redekop."  “Skullring.org