Speak for England - Softcover
Brian Marley survives a plane crash on an island only to come upon a village founded by survivors of a 1958 crash, with characteristics of an England from fifty years ago and ruled sternly by someone calling himself the Headmaster.
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"Amusing and intelligent throughout...The tone of the narrative is pitch-perfect" (Observer)
"A comic novelist of considerable stature...An assured, clever, raffishly inventive work" (Guardian)
"Deliciously entertaining" (Independent on Sunday)
"The writing is so sharp and waspish that comparisons with Evelyn Waugh are not misplaced" (Sunday Telegraph)
"Consistently inventive and entertaining" (Daily Mail)
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"A comic novelist of considerable stature...An assured, clever, raffishly inventive work" (Guardian)
"Deliciously entertaining" (Independent on Sunday)
"The writing is so sharp and waspish that comparisons with Evelyn Waugh are not misplaced" (Sunday Telegraph)
"Consistently inventive and entertaining" (Daily Mail)
A superlative comic novel from the author of A White Merc With Fins.
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- PublisherLawson Library
- Publication date2007
- ISBN 10 159692053X
- ISBN 13 9781596920538
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages338
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