Puckoon

Author: Spike Milligan
Publisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 0241971373
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 132

Book Description
DISCOVER PUCKOON, SPIKE MILLIGAN'S CLASSIC SLAPSTICK NOVEL 'Pops with the erratic brilliance of a careless match in a box of fireworks' Daily Mail In 1924 the Boundary Commission is tasked with creating the new official division between Northern Ireland and the Irish Free State. Through incompetence, dereliction of duty and sheer perversity, the border ends up running through the middle of the small town of Puckoon. Houses are divided from outhouses, husbands separated from wives, bars are cut off from their patrons, churches sundered from graveyards. And in the middle of it all is poor Dan Milligan, our feckless protagonist, who is taunted and manipulated by everyone (including the sadistic author) to try and make some sense of this mess . . . 'Bursts at the seams with superb comic characters involved in unbelievably likely troubles on the Irish border' Observer 'Our first comic philosopher' Eddie Izzard

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Languages : en
Pages : 155

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Badjelly the Witch

Author: Alannah O'Sullivan
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780908607655
Category : Children's plays, New Zealand
Languages : en
Pages : 71

Book Description
"Badjelly is the baddest witch there is. Tim and Rose have lost their cow Lucy and are going on a trek to find her. They are captured in an enchanted forest by Badjelly. Will Badjelly make them into boy girl soup?"--Back cover.

Milligan's Meaning of Life

Author: Spike Milligan
Publisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 0670920789
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 322

Book Description
Spike Milligan's legendary war memoirs are a hilarious and subversive first-hand account of the Second World War, as well as a fascinating portrait of the formative years of this towering comic genius, most famous as writer and star of The Goon Show. They have sold over 4.5 million copies. With his lightning-quick wit, unbridled creativity and his ear for the absurd, Milligan revolutionised British comedy, leaving a legacy of influence that stretches from Monty Python's Flying Circus to the work of self-confessed acolytes such as Eddie Izzard and Stephen Fry today. Throughout his life, Milligan wrote prolifically - scripts, poetry, fiction, as well as several volumes of memoir, in which he took an entirely idiosyncratic approach to the truth. In this ground-breaking work, Norma Farnes, his long-time manager, companion, counsellor and confidante, gathers together the loose threads, reads between the lines and draws on the full breadth of his writing to present his life in his own words: an autobiography - of sorts. From his childhood in India, through his early career as a jazz musician and sketch-show entertainer, his spells in North Africa and Italy with the Royal Artillery, to that fateful first broadcast of The Goon Show and beyond into the annals of comedy history, this is the autobiography Milligan never wrote.

Silly Verse for Kids

Author: Spike Milligan
Publisher: Puffin
ISBN: 9780141362984
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
EDUCATIONAL: ENGLISH LITERATURE. This is a collection of the absurd, ridiculous, sublime and characteristically anarchic verse from the brilliant Spike Milligan. With his very own illustrations, this collection, which includes the famous On the Ning Nang Nong will make you laugh from the bottom of your belly - just like Spike did. Ages 9+.

The Essential Spike Milligan

Author: Spike Milligan
Publisher: HarperCollins UK
ISBN: 0007155115
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 356

Book Description
This anthology of Spike Milligan's work includes favourites from his classic books, such as 'Puckoon'; scripts from the Goon show; a collection of letters; his liberating writings on depression; and a selection of children's poetry and writings.

Thomas Jefferson

Author: Fawn M. Brodie
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 9780393317527
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 612

Book Description
An ambitious, perceptive portrayal of a complex man, this bestselling biography breaks new ground in its exploration of Jefferson's inner life. "Brodie has humanized Jefferson without in the least diminishing him".--Wallace Stegner. Photos.

I Heard the Owl Call My Name

Author: Margaret Craven
Publisher: Dell
ISBN: 1101969539
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 162

Book Description
Amid the grandeur of the remote Pacific Northwest stands Kingcome, a village so ancient that, according to Kwakiutl myth, it was founded by the two brothers left on earth after the great flood. The Native Americans who still live there call it Quee, a place of such incredible natural richness that hunting and fishing remain primary food sources. But the old culture of totems and potlatch is being replaces by a new culture of prefab housing and alcoholism. Kingcome's younger generation is disenchanted and alienated from its heritage. And now, coming upriver is a young vicar, Mark Brian, on a journey of discovery that can teach him—and us—about life, death, and the transforming power of love.

The Elephant Tree

Author: R D Ronald
Publisher: Troubador Publishing Ltd
ISBN: 1848769539
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 178

Book Description
A jagged series of events written with gritty realism. The Elephant Tree transcends stereotypes and challenges the reader’s sense of morality, with shocking plot twists and vivid characters.

Earthly Powers

Author: Anthony Burgess
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781609450847
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
At the book's center are two twentieth-century men who represent different kinds of power: Kenneth Toomey, eminent novelist, a man who has outlived his contemporaries to survive into, bitter, luxurious old age as a celebrity of dubious notoriety, and Don Carlo Campanati, a man of God, eventually beloved Pope, who rises through the Vatican as a shrewd manipulator to become the architect of church revolution and a candidate for sainthood.