Resultaten voor 'david nobbs'
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Pratt Of The Argus
Henry Pratt back home from National Service is a man at last. As eager to prove it as he is to please he is in at the deep end in his chosen profession - cub reporter on the Thurmarsh Evening Argus.As trams and typewriters chatter to the echoes of Suez and Hungary Henry finds himself in an exciting if bewildering world. His first scoop about a stolen colander is not quite as straightforward as he hopes.Misprints and chuckles abound as ever-hopeful Henry manages to fall foul both of typesetters and attractive women. And in a profession not noted for kindness to the diffident he is as prone to accident as practical jokes.Nothing ever goes quite right for Henry. So when the scoop of a lifetime finally comes his way it threatens to upset the family and complicate further his ever-hopeful love life.
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Fair Do's
The classic follow-up to A Bit of A Do, about the comedy of Yorkshire life, told through seven more do’s. Life is still a social minefield in this small Yorkshire town. From the opening of a vegetarian restaurant to the inauguration of the Outer Inner Relief Ring Road, join Ted and Liz as they struggle through another series of excruciatingly funny ‘do’s’ in this sequel to A BIT OF A DO. Can Ted find happiness with a waitress, now that he and Liz are no longer an item? Can Liz bring comfort to the grieving Neville, her strangely immaculate second husband? Above all, how will Ted’s ex-wife Rita manage as her family becomes more dysfunctional at every function? Can she possibly be as happy as she seems?
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A Bit of a Do
From the author of the Reginald Perrin series comes a classic tale of two families, one posher than the other, set in a Yorkshire town. ‘I’m the groom’s father. You’re the bride’s mother. It’s their wedding day.’ When Ted Simcock, maker of toasting forks in a small Yorkshire town, tries to avoid the inevitable with beautiful dentist’s wife Liz Rodenhurst, his anguished attempt fails utterly, with huge consequences for both their families. From one awkward ‘do’ to the next, via a dentists’ dinner dance and the Crowning of Miss Frozen Chicken (UK), the fall-out touches everyone, but none more than Liz’s husband Laurence and Ted’s wife Rita, the unexpected heroine of this tale. Charting the relationship of newlyweds Paul and Jenny, along with the infamous coupling of their respective parents, Ted and Liz, this book will have you cringing, crying and laughing out loud.
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The Second Life of Sally Mottram
The wonderfully entertaining new novel from bestselling author of The Fall and Rise of Reggie Perrin.
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El regreso de Reginald Perrin
Reggie Perrin es un hombre gris, de mediana edad, que lleva una vida si cabe más gris. Hasta que un día decide simular su propio suicidio y comenzar de nuevo como una persona diferente. 'El regreso de Reginald Perrin' retoma el espíritu de la hilarante y agridulce 'Caída y auge de Reginald Perrin', y nos ofrece las nuevas aventuras de uno de los antihéroes más inolvidables de la literatura británica reciente. Tras diversas tribulaciones, incluida la temporada en que nuestro protagonista se ve obligado a cuidar gorrinos en una granja, Reggie abrirá una tienda, 'Basura', en la que todo lo que se vende es completa y absolutamente inútil. Para su sorpresa, el proyecto se convierte en un éxito apabullante. Cuando Reggie decide destruir el monstruo que ha creado, se da cuenta de que hay criaturas difícilmente eliminables. Un canto a la condición suburbana y a la miseria del hombre moderno; una 'comedia trágica' plasmada con un ácido humor a prueba de bombas.
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The Fall and Rise of Gordon Coppinger
The much-anticipated latest novel from David Nobbs is the spiritual follow-up to The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin and is as witty as it is prescient.
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Obstacles to Young Love
From one of the greatest comedic writers of a generation comes a story of love, faith and taxidermy.
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Cupids Dart
Alan and Ange are on a train heading for London. Alan is a philosophy lecturer still a virgin at fifty-five; Ange a twenty-something horoscope reading darts groupie. They certainly don't expect their first casual meeting to lead to anything but it does. Seizing the day as they pull into Euston station Alan asks Ange out to dinner and so begins the unlikeliest of liaisons. As they get to know each other they are initiated into each other's worlds. From the claustrophobic confines of an Oxford College to the heady excitement of a big dart's match; from Liebfraumilch to Wittgenstein and everything in between. They even travel to Rome seeing many wonderful things as Alan learns to live for the moment and Ange to appreciate the finer things in life. But can they survive their differences in age and background? Are Alan's feelings the stuff of obsession and infatuation or is this true love? And what sort of philosopher is he if he cannot define and understand love? Told through the voice of Alan this touching and hilarious story is much more than a tale about an unlikely couple. Ultimately it is a story about the nature of love.
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The Complete Pratt
THE COMPLETE PRATT compiles the first three volumes of the misadventures of Henry Pratt beginning with a brilliantly funny evocation of a Yorkshire boyhood in SECOND FROM LAST IN THE SACK RACE; Henry's first job is as a cub reporter on the Thurmarsh Evening Argus told in PRATT OF THE ARGUS hailed by Sue Townsend as 'very funny'. Finally in THE CUCUMBER MAN Henry decides to take on a new role and a new challenge - working for the Cucumber Marketing Board in Leeds. Stumbling through the fifties sixties seventies and eighties Henry accumulates marriages and children along the way and THE COMPLETE PRATT is a touching and hilarious ride through a divided Britain...
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Pratt a Manger
When pretty young TV researcher Nicky Proctor visits Cafe Henry in London's Soho Henry Pratt's life changes forever. He becomes an instant star of the TV food quiz A Question of Salt and before long he is given his own series Hooray it's Henry. The book of the series reaches Number Two. He's a celebrity. Henry Ezra Pratt has come a long way from his humble beginnings.But as usual in Henry's life things begin to go wrong. He incurs the deep hatred of rival celebrity chef Bradley Tompkins with his bad manners bad wig and no Michelin stars. A war is waged against him escalating into plots and deceptions which threaten to destroy the reputation and career of the man dubbed 'The People's Chef'. It must be Bradley behind all this - or must it? On the domestic front too there are storms ahead. Henry is blissfully happy in his second marriage to Hilary but he is sorely tempted by young Nicky and his lovely co-star Sally. Can he resist? Can he become a real man at last? Or will success spoil Henry Pratt for good...?We last met Henry Pratt in The Cucumber Man. Pratt Manger continues the hilarious story of a great British underdog.
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Sex And Other Changes
Every time someone changes sex there's one less freak in the worldMeet the Divots. They seem a happily married couple in their cosy suburban home in a cosy suburban town. Then one day everything begins to change. Nick drops his bombshell. He wants to become Nicola. Alison is extremely upset naturally. But she has more reason than most to be upset because she has a secret too. She wants to become Alan. Nick has pulled the rug from under her. However she's always been the supportive type and she'll wait her turn.Will Nick become Nicola? Can Alison become Alan? Can both partners in a marriage change sex and save their marriage? What effect will this have on their children the sexy Emma and the hi-tech loner Graham? There are dramatic changes in store for them too - and for Alison's father Bernie. In the spirit of David Nobbs' acclaimed novel Going Gently Sex and Other Changes is a funny touching and compassionate study of what being a man and a woman really means.
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I Didnt Get Where I Am Today
As a small boy David Nobbs survived the Second World War unscathed until his bedroom ceiling fell on him when the last bomb to be dropped on Britain by the Germans landed near his home. It was the nearest he came to the war but National Service would later make him one of Britain's most reluctant soldiers. It was an unforgettable and often unpleasant experience.As a struggling writer David was catapulted into the thrilling world of satire at the BBC when he rang THAT WAS THE WEEK THAT WAS with a joke and got through to David Frost who sent a taxi for the joke. He never looked back. His greatness as a modern comic writer was confirmed by the publication of THE FALL AND RISE OF REGINALD PERRIN which he adapted into the immensely successful television series that has entered the fabric of British cultural life through phrases images and brilliant humour. A mesmerising beautifully told tale of life in writing and comedy I DIDN'T GET WHERE I AM TODAY is the hilarious poignant and very personal story of David Nobbs' life which also describes some of the most famous comedians of the last century and captures a golden age of British television.
€ 25,40