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
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
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
Rings of Stone
Author: Aubrey Burl
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 286
Book Description
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 286
Book Description
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.
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.
Minutes of the ... Annual Session of the Synod of Pennsylvania of the Presbyterian Church in the United States of America
Author: Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Synod of Pennsylvania
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
Annual Report of the American Bible Society ...
Author: American Bible Society
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1034
Book Description
Together with a list of auxiliary and cooperating societies, their officers, and other data.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1034
Book Description
Together with a list of auxiliary and cooperating societies, their officers, and other data.
Annual Report of the American Bible Society
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1510
Book Description
Together with a list of auxiliary and cooperating societies, their officers, and other data.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1510
Book Description
Together with a list of auxiliary and cooperating societies, their officers, and other data.
The Stone Circles of the British Isles
Author: Aubrey Burl
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780300023985
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 410
Book Description
Synthesizing pertinent archaeological data, the author details the origins, structural features, and significance of Britain's ancient megalithic monuments
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780300023985
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 410
Book Description
Synthesizing pertinent archaeological data, the author details the origins, structural features, and significance of Britain's ancient megalithic monuments
The Best of Milligan & McCarthy
Author: Peter Milligan
Publisher: Dark Horse Originals
ISBN: 1616551534
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
One of comics' most fruitful collaborations gets its due in this deluxe collection of hard-to-find gems from Peter Milligan (Hellblazer, X-Statix) and Brendan McCarthy (Judge Dredd, The Zaucer of Zilk)! Collecting twenty years' worth of the pair's finest work from Vanguard Illustrated, Strange Days, 2000 AD, and Vertigo, this beautiful hardcover includes art that has been newly touched up by McCarthy and features original commentary by both creators. There is still nothing else like Freakwave, Paradax!, Skin, and Rogan Gosh, and this volume is both the perfect retrospective for fans and the ideal starting place for new readers!
Publisher: Dark Horse Originals
ISBN: 1616551534
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
One of comics' most fruitful collaborations gets its due in this deluxe collection of hard-to-find gems from Peter Milligan (Hellblazer, X-Statix) and Brendan McCarthy (Judge Dredd, The Zaucer of Zilk)! Collecting twenty years' worth of the pair's finest work from Vanguard Illustrated, Strange Days, 2000 AD, and Vertigo, this beautiful hardcover includes art that has been newly touched up by McCarthy and features original commentary by both creators. There is still nothing else like Freakwave, Paradax!, Skin, and Rogan Gosh, and this volume is both the perfect retrospective for fans and the ideal starting place for new readers!
The Presbyterian Quarterly Review
Author: B. J. Wallace
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Presbyterian Church
Languages : en
Pages : 930
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Presbyterian Church
Languages : en
Pages : 930
Book Description
Variety TV REV 1991-92 17
Author: Prouty
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 9780824037963
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 530
Book Description
First published in 1994. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 9780824037963
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 530
Book Description
First published in 1994. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.