The Nazi in question is Martin Bormann, and he's heading to Eden to visit his Fuehrer, Adolf Hitler, who has been living in the small coastal village for almost 30 years.

The book is set in 1982, at the time of the Falklands War, which the hiding Nazis expect Argentina to win and, in turn, lead a new era of military dictatorships that will spread through South America.

Then they can move and live as advisors to the South American Reich.

While biding his time waiting for the Fourth Reich to rise up, Hitler engages in skirmishes with the local council over a shed that doesn't meet with regulations and indulges in petty attempts to stir up racial hatred in the township.

That's when he's not looking after the young son of a neighbour.

The Hitler of Uncle Adolf doesn't come across as a huge figure to be feared. Rather he appears to be a crazy old man.

That, says author Craig Cormick, is one of the key points of the book.

"If you take Hitler out of the context of his supporters and the army and the times he was in and put him in a small remote community without all those things, what have you left with?" Cormick asks.

"You're left with a crackpot."

A crackpot with a tiny moustache - yes, he's grown that back again.

While there have been plenty of suggested Hitler hiding spots over the years, Cormick says Eden has never been one of them.

One reason for choosing the tiny town on Twofold Bay - population about 3000 - is surely the comic potential of the Fuehrer living in such a place.

But Cormick says there were other reasons as well.

"I wanted something on the South Coast that was remote, away from metropolitan influences," he says.

"Twofold Bay is about halfway between Sydney and Melbourne. And I love the fact the name is Eden because Eden's in the Bible as paradise and this turns it around."

The genesis of Uncle Adolf comes from another story Cormick wrote with a similarly quirky premise.

"I think it dates back to a short story I wrote a decade or so ago about the Yugoslav wars with Srebrenica," he says.

"I wrote a story about a retirement home called The Retirement Home at the End of the World. There were old Nazis, old Yugoslav war criminals - all these people sitting on a verandah in their wheelchairs wishing they could still be as evil as they were when they were younger.

"I think that was the germ of it and it sprung out from there."

Based in Canberra, Cormick spent a fortnight in Eden to write the first draft of Uncle Adolf. But his connection with the South Coast is much stronger than that.

He was born in Figtree and lived in the Illawarra for a year before the family moved to Queensland. Later, in his teens, the family returned and pitched their tent in Keiraville for a few years before moving onto Canberra.

Cormick's book tally sits at 20 - he knows because he had to count them recently after someone asked how many he'd written - and they include fiction, non-fiction and short stories.

"I just go where the interest takes me," he says of his varied back catalogue.

"Some things lend themselves to fiction, others to non-fiction. Having a group of arrows in my quiver makes it easier and a bit more varied; you don't get stuck in a rut, you can jump from one thing to another."

Those 20 books all had to be squeezed around a full-time job, which is working as a science communicator for the likes of the CSIRO and Questacon, and his family.

But, as that bibliography suggests, finding time has never been a big issue.

"You make time to write," he says.

"If you're a serious athlete, a serious footballer, you find time to train.

"If you're a serious writer, you find time to write.

"I've been pretty lucky for the last 10 years or so and had to work four days a week, which has given me one day a week to write.

"When I'm in the zone I also tend to write on weekends and evenings and mornings."

For some, the idea of spending all week in a day job that requires a lot of writing and then opting to do more of it over the weekend would seem too much to handle.

But, as Cormick sees it, if you don't like it, don't do it.

"When you stop enjoying it, it's probably time to give it up - or give it a pause when it stops being fun," he says.

"A lot of people across the creative arts have a lot of grief.

"They slave away for years and years and no-one acknowledges them and they don't get the recognition.

"If you're doing it and not enjoying it, why are you doing it?"

His latest book makes fun of one of the more hated figures in history and it's not the first time Cormick has approached a sensitive subject with satire.

His award-winning book, A Funny Thing Happened at 27,000 Feet, looks at the era of terrorism post-9/11.

"I'm of the firm opinion that if you're confronted with something evil, poking fun at it takes away the fear," he said.

"I've done the same thing with Osama Bin Laden and stories about terrorism.

"So this humanises Hitler, it takes away from the demon idol idea of him. It puts him in a human perspective and strips away all of the power he had."