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Billy Liar
Häftad, 2010
179 kr
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Penguin Decades bring you the novels that helped shape modern Britain. When they were published, some were bestsellers, some were considered scandalous, and others were simply misunderstood. All represent their time and helped define their generation, while today each is considered a landmark work …
Billy Liar
E-bok, 2010
102 kr
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Penguin Decades bring you the novels that helped shape modern Britain. When they were published, some were bestsellers, some were considered scandalous, and others were simply misunderstood. All represent their time and helped define their generation, while today each is considered a landmark work …
Billy Liar
Häftad, 2015
179 kr
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The classic comedy of a 50s youth trapped inside a Walter Mitty fantasy-world, published as a Penguin Essential for the first time.Keith Waterhouse's Billy Liar was published in 1959, and captures brilliantly the claustrophobic atmosphere of a small town. It tells the story of Billy Fisher, a …
Children's Day
Av Keith Waterhouse, Willis Hall
Häftad, 1975
223 kr
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A hectic children's birthday party provides a noisy background to a series of domestic crises. Robin has left Emma and Emma has become friendly with her solicitor, Tom; both Tom and Robin arrive for the celebrations. The mishaps of the party spill over into the kitchen'situation, the behaviour of …
Who's Who
Av Keith Waterhouse, Willis Hall
Häftad, 1974
223 kr
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Who's Who takes place in the lounge of a Brighton hotel a place of faded elegance where the inevitable trio saw away playing sad and dated ballads. In the first act we follow the confusion that Mr. Black and Mr. White land themselves in as inextricable as the hotel itself in their efforts to cover …
Good Grief
Häftad, 1999
223 kr
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A sensitive, wryly humorous study of a middle-aged widow who finds the courage to break with the past. June keeps a diary in the form of private conversations with her late husband Sam, a national newspaper editor. Her stepdaughter, Pauline, determines to keep an eye on June. Likewise, Eric Grant, …
Jeffrey Bernard is Unwell
Häftad, 1991
214 kr
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Gambler, journalist, fervent alcoholic and four-times married Jeffrey Bernard writes the "Low Life" column for the Spectator magazine chronicling Soho life as well as offering a very personal philosophy on vodka, women and race-courses. From this, Keith Waterhouse has brilliantly constructed a play …
Our Song
Av Keith Waterhouse, Willis Hall
Häftad, 1993
223 kr
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Pulling himself out of the rut of his middle-aged executive lifestyle, Roger Piper stumbles into a sixteen-month tempestuous affair with the effervescent Angela Caxton, and is thrown into a whirlwind of romances and champagne. He discovers that Angie does not share his obsession with their …
All Things Bright and Beautiful
Av Keith Waterhouse, Willis Hall
Häftad, 1982
223 kr
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An exhuberant comedy which is yet a sad commentary on twentieth-century bureaucracy. The Hesseltines are living in property well overdue for demolition and they are looking forward to being re-housed in more beautiful and salutory surroundings. The crisis comes when they find that, far from a house …
Play
Av Willis Hall, Keith Waterhouse
Häftad, 1982
214 kr
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A teenager in a North Country town, Billy Fisher weaves a world of his own out of his day dreams. He is an incurable liar, idle and dishonest, and to escape from his dull job as an undertaker's clerk and his dreary domestic background he imagines himself in so many different situations that truth …
Celebration
Av Keith Waterhouse, Willis Hall
Häftad, 1983
223 kr
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The Wedding and The Funeral make up the two parts of this comedy in which we are introduced to the same family, first making preparations for a wedding and subsequently, six months later, returning from the funeral of their Uncle Arthur, a lovable personality who provides the link between the two …
Libretto
Av Keith Waterhouse, Willis Hall m. fl.
Häftad, 1984
223 kr
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Following the successful television series based on Barbara Euphan Todd's children's classic, Keith Waterhouse, Willis Hall and Denis King bring us a new, effervescent stage musical of the story of Worzel Gummidge. The naughty, petulant, greedy, yet always lovable scarecrow is here with all the …
Palace Pier
E-bok, 2013
45 kr
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In the early 1960s, a golden age for newly-discovered writers, Chris Duffy was something of a nearly man. His debut novel was reasonably successful; his second was turned down as being too like the first. Thanks to procrastination and heavy drinking, he has published nothing since. Settled now in …
Our Song
E-bok, 2013
45 kr
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I knew, logically, that you were bad for me, that you demoralised me, destroyed my peace of mind, deflected me from the things I should have been doing, distorted my sense of perspective; yet at the same time you keyed me up, made me feel alive.'' Roger Piper is married, middle-aged and …
Bimbo
Häftad, 2014
318 kr
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Grossly misrepresented in her ghosted memoirs, Page Three glamour girl Debra Chase determines to set the record straight. Here then is the truth about her dizzy rise to fame via Tulse Hill's most revered fashion school, her liaisons with the entire Seathorpe soccer team and the lecherous Sir Monty …
Bimbo
E-bok, 2013
45 kr
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Now it can be told. The biggest majority of the Debra Chase by Herself series in the Sunday Shocker , which I am sposed to of written, was a load of rubbish, a virago of lies from start to finish.'' Thus does Page Three celebrity Debra Chase set out to put the record straight about her life in the …
There is a Happy Land
E-bok, 2013
45 kr
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''Among the few great writers of our time'' Independent ''An exceptionally talented novelist'' Sunday Times ''Remarkable for the deep and unwavering insight it gives into child behaviour'' The Times Seen through the eyes of a young boy living on a council estate in a northern town, a pre-war …
There is a Happy Land
Häftad, 2014
145 kr
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'Among the few great writers of our time' Independent'An exceptionally talented novelist' Sunday Times'Remarkable for the deep and unwavering insight it gives into child behaviour' The TimesSeen through the eyes of a young boy living on a council estate in a northern town, a pre-war childhood …
Unsweet Charity
E-bok, 2013
45 kr
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As editor of the local newspaper in the small, pleasant town of Badgers Heath, Oliver Kettle is expected to join in the locals'' constant efforts to raise money for good causes, from karaoke marathons to sponsored funerals. But with Bananaskin Week, the biggest fund-raising drive of them all, the …
Sharon & Tracy & the Rest
Häftad, 2014
170 kr
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Keith Waterhouse's long-running column, which began appearing in the Daily Mail in 1986, won him numerous national press award. His characters Sharon and Tracy became a national institution, as did that venerable acadamy of English letters, the Association for the Annihilation of the Aberrant …
Sharon & Tracy & the Rest
E-bok, 2013
45 kr
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Keith Waterhouse''s long-running column, which began appearing in the Daily Mail in 1986, won him numerous national press award. His characters Sharon and Tracy became a national institution, as did that venerable acadamy of English letters, the Association for the Annihilation of the Aberrant …
Soho
Häftad, 2014
145 kr
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'The work of a master' Sunday Times'Effortlessly brilliant...a comedy of London life' Sunday TelegraphNo London neighbourhood more resmbles the restless downstream tide of the Thames than the ragged square mile of Soho. Ask the people who live there, like Christine Yardley, drag queen by night and …
Soho
E-bok, 2013
44 kr
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''The work of a master'' Sunday Times ''Effortlessly brilliant...a comedy of London life'' Sunday Telegraph No London neighbourhood more resmbles the restless downstream tide of the Thames than the ragged square mile of Soho. Ask the people who live there, like Christine Yardley, drag queen by …
Good Grief
Häftad, 2014
145 kr
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Returning from the memorial service for her husband, a tough tabloid editor cut down in his prime, June Pepper sets about following his instructions to keep a journal as therapy. But both grief and the journal prove elusive. Distracted by a problem stepdaughter and by a liaison with a man she …
Good Grief
E-bok, 2013
45 kr
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Returning from the memorial service, June Pepper, middle-aged widow of a tough tabloid editor cut down in his prime, sets about following her late husband''s instructions to keep a journal of her bereavement, as therapy. But he did not say anything about writing it down. It is therefore in the form …
Keith Waterhouse: Collected Plays
Häftad, 2012
334 kr
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Keith Waterhouse is one of Britain’s most popular writers in nearly every field. This collection brings together for the first time his most celebrated plays from a career spanning more than forty years.Our Song is a warm, tender, romantic drama, infused with moments of great humour. Pulling …
Keith Waterhouse: Collected Plays
E-bok, 2012
359 kr
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Keith Waterhouse is one of Britain’s most popular writers in nearly every field. This collection brings together for the first time his most celebrated plays from a career spanning more than forty years.Our Song is a warm, tender, romantic drama, infused with moments of great humour. Pulling …
