Simon's circumstances mean he takes a minimum wage job cleaning a factory. Every morning the cleaning team are left motivational notes by the supervisor. People and especially management only see them as cleaners but when Simon appears in a national newspaper their views change. It is a story of class, solidarity, kindness and comradeship where it it not the job you have that defines you but how you treat others that does.
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A satirical look at snobbery and class. Think Evelyn Waugh with a mop bucket and flannel.
Born in Loughborough, Simon Crump lived in Sheffield for forty years and now lives in Haworth. He is an internationally exhibited artist and the author of experimental fiction, including the composite novels My Elvis Blackout and Neverland, published by Bloomsbury. Other books include short story collection Monkeys Birthday, the novel Twilight Time, and the historical non-fiction work They Call it U-Boat Hotel.
In 2017, he received a suspended prison sentence for environmental activism around the Sheffield street tree campaign. He coauthored a collection of eyewitness accounts of the campaign with Calvin Payne, Persons Unknown: the Battle for Sheffields Street Trees...
Simon's latest book, Post It Notes from Underground, will be published by Bluemoose Books in 2026.
