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From Thomas Hardy's football report to Dan Brown's visit to the cash dispenser, the work of the great and the not-so-great is here sent up with little hope of coming down. Most of these pieces began retooled for the printed page. Others, such as Martin Amis's first day at Hogwars, have been written specially for this collection. Philip Larkin's Lines in Celebration of the Queen Mother's 115th Birthday', first banned, then cut by the BBc, appears in its entirely for the first time. This is not a book for the faint-hearted or the downstairs lavatory. It is a book for the bedside table of someone you cannot live without.
From Thomas Hardy's football report to Dan Brown's visit to the cash dispenser, the work of the great and the not-so-great is here sent up with little hope of coming down. Most of these pieces began retooled for the printed page. Others, such as Martin Amis's first day at Hogwars, have been written specially for this collection. Philip Larkin's Lines in Celebration of the Queen Mother's 115th Birthday', first banned, then cut by the BBc, appears in its entirely for the first time. This is not a book for the faint-hearted or the downstairs lavatory. It is a book for... Read More