Doug’s new novel, ‘Sin Bin Island’

[clem]

Details here about the new book Doug’s written, a novel for children.

Release date September 11 2025.

Reading age 9 – 11 years.

At the end of each year, four pupils from Cyril Sniggs’s Correctional Orphanage for Wayward Boys and Girls are banished to Sin Bin Island, an eerie place surrounded by eel-infested waters. Legend has it, the island has a secret tunnel, used to smuggle magic into mainland England. But in over 300 years the tunnel has never been found. Nor has any of the magic. This year, all that’s going to change.

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[Quinn: Clochebusters World Champion]

> Reading age 9 – 11 years

that’ll suit most the people here then ;)

[Stephen Abootman]

It’s being released on 9/11 for the very specific age range of 9-11? The Chris Barrie crowd will be all over that.

[Dave]

Just wait until you read pages 9-11.

[Dave]

OSAMA BIN ISLAND

On 9-11 each year, nine to eleven pupils from Cyril Sniggs’s Correctional Orphanage for Wayward Boys and Girls are banished to Osama Bin Island, an eerie place surrounded by between nine and eleven eels. Legend has it, the island has a secret tunnel, used to smuggle magic into mainland England. But in over 911 years the tunnel has never been found. Nor has any of the magic. On 11 September 2001, all that’s going to change.

[Technopeasant]

WASTE BIN ISLAND

Where did you think all the bins go?

[Flap Jack]

A whole geographical location which is a bin, you say?

[Stephen Abootman]

OSAMA BIN ISLAND
On 9-11 each year, nine to eleven pupils from Cyril Sniggs’s Correctional Orphanage for Wayward Boys and Girls are banished to Osama Bin Island, an eerie place surrounded by between nine and eleven eels. Legend has it, the island has a secret tunnel, used to smuggle magic into mainland England. But in over 911 years the tunnel has never been found. Nor has any of the magic. On 11 September 2001, all that’s going to change.

[Warbodog]

It’s obviously a ‘Torchwood’-style working title to hide it being the Red Dwarf Academy junior reboot.

>four pupils

>waters = space

>300 years = 3,000,000

[Warbodog]

[Jonathan Capps]

Oh this sounds pretty cool, actually. Mine will be 8 but close enough to give me an excuse to get this.

[Technopeasant]

I am sure the less than a year under the age recommendation will scar them terribly.

[Warbodog]

Oh this sounds pretty cool, actually.

[Jonathan Capps]

I am sure the less than a year under the age recommendation will scar them terribly.

Looking forward to the pending eel phobia.

[Flap Jack]

Here’s hoping Rob Grant releases his own children’s book a year later with the same core concept but more gratuitous descriptions of torture.

[Technopeasant]

Sake of argument, how much torture wouldn’t be gratuitous?

[Technopeasant]

[Flap Jack]

Sake of argument, how much torture wouldn’t be gratuitous?

Let’s say… 2.

[Nick R]

Legend has it, the island has a secret tunnel,

Also, are we sure it’s really an island? Because it’s possible that…

[Dave]

[Quinn: Clochebusters World Champion]

[Nick R]

[Rushy]

Honestly, I’m just glad to see Doug following new artistic pursuits. I feel a bit bad for him, since he’s probably spent an unhealthy amount of years trying to get various Red Dwarf projects off the ground.

[clem]

But in over 911 years the tunnel has never been found.

I can never hear that number without thinking of Vic Reeves one Saturday morning on Live & Kicking introducing the boyband 911 as “Nine hundred and eleven”.

[Technopeasant]

Honestly, I’m just glad to see Doug following new artistic pursuits. I feel a bit bad for him, since he’s probably spent an unhealthy amount of years trying to get various Red Dwarf projects off the ground.

[Asclepius]

Is it a leprosy analogy?

The Island (Hislop novel) – Wikipedia

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