Speak for England - Softcover

Hawes, James M.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1596921412 ISBN 13: 9781596921412

Publisher: Macadam Cage Pub, 2005

Synopsis

Brian Marley, a divorced, ineffectual Englishman, is all alone in the vilest jungle on earth, about to die live on television. A reluctant contestant on Brit Pluck, Green Hell, Two Million, the ultimate reality TV show, Marley has somehow managed to outlive his rivals and win enough money to change his life. Except that the entire TV crew has just been wiped out in a multiple helicopter crash. Marley's on his own, desperate to use his GSM camera to leave a last message for his little son, but he can find no signal. With the crocodiles closing in, he has no option but to start climbing the vast cliff at his back. Inevitably, he falls.
And awakes in a lost world that is remarkably like an Englishman's version of heaven. There's cricket and rugger, the Union Jack, plucky boys, pretty girls, a tough but fair headmaster - an entire miniature civilisation preserved by the surviving passengers from a Comet IV which vanished in 1958. Firmly convinced that they were the first casualties of World War III, sustained by stiff upper lips and the Book of Common Prayer, they have kept an idyllic, pre-sixties England alive for nearly fifty years, waiting for the day when the Old Country will call them to do their bit.

About this title

Review:

"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)

From the Publisher:

A superlative comic novel from the author of A White Merc With Fins.

About this edition

• Publisher: Macadam Cage Pub
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 1596921412
• ISBN 13: 9781596921412
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 338