OVER the last year Miserable Malcolm (Bill Jones) has been entertaining people with his doom-laden one-man show, Graveside Manner, and has now brought out a book of cartoons and poems featuring the same gloomy humour.

The Hall of Misery has cartoons running the gamut from despair to hopelessness and all the way back to despair again, as well as some of the favourite poems from the show, including (This is the Way that) Animals Die and Better in the Grave.

It’s available from Stroud Bookshop and costs £5.99.