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Autobiography of a Cad(Hardback)
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15/03/2001
"The Autobiography of a Cad" is a spoof memoir of the life and times of one Edward Fox-Ingleby. Born in 1889, it runs from his earliest memories of his father''s Midlands estate through to Eton, Oxf...
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Squire Haggard''s Journal(Hardback)
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05/10/2000
A bawdy parody of a late 18th-century gentleman''s diary. Amos Haggard is a gargantuan, warty toad of a character. Along with Roderick, his idiot sidekick son, he carouses with prostitutes, imbibes ...
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The World of Simon Raven(Hardback)
Prion Books Ltd
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08/07/2002
It was said of Simon Raven that "he had the mind of a cad but the pen of an angel". This selection of his journalism contains an array of pieces on army life, cricket (another obsession), sex, schoo...
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The Eliza Stories(Hardback)
Prion Books Ltd
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01/02/2002
Eliza is long-suffering and intelligent, her husband a pompous prig and a self-regarding idiot. Their life together is described through everyday incidents by the never-named husband, who reveals hi...
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The Unspeakable Skipton(Hardback)
Prion Books Ltd
Published:
09/01/2002
Daniel Skipton is an English author living in Bruges. He lives in an attic, nursing innumerable, imaginery grievances. Unable to get his second book published, he lives by his wits. He meets a group...
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A Melon for Ecstasy(Hardback)
Prion Books Ltd
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09/01/2002
This novel by the two subsequently famous humourists was written in 1971. It hero is one Humphrey Mackevoy who takes a love of nature rather too far. He is passionate about trees. In particular one ...
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A Touch of Daniel(Hardback)
Prion Books Ltd
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09/11/2001
The Brandon family inhabit an absurd Northern world where the men say nowt if they can help it and the women carp endlessly without ever getting anywhere. Yet it soon becomes clear that in the Brand...
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The Marsh-Marlowe Letters(Hardback)
Prion Books Ltd
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09/11/2001
This is a series of spoof letters between two denizens of the literary world. It takes the form of a correspondence between Gerald Marsh, a retired literary man and teacher and his ex-pupil Sir Harv...
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