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More of Peter Simple: extracts from "Way of the world" column in the Daily Telegraph, 1965-1969; - Hardcover
Synopsis
This new book of extracts from the Daily Telegraph "Way of the World" column covers the period from May 1965 to May 1969. All the well-known Peter Simple characters appear once more: Gen. Nidgett, England's Man of Bone and Iron; the motoring fanatic, J. Bonington Jagworth; Amos Haggard, the wicked 18th century squire; Mrs. Butt-Pauker the Hampstead thinker, with her progressivist family; forward-looking, relevant Bishop Spacely-Trellis; Socialist King Norman the Good; and all the horrendous inhabitants of Stretchford, the murky, go-ahead metropolis of the Midlands.
Some new representative figures our time make a first appearance: avant garde dramatist Neville Dreadberg and his humanist wife Pippa; Ken Slabb, the bearded, grenade-draped revolutionary student leader; the Leftist baby, Bert Brecht Mao Odinga; dynamic woman columnist Clare Howitzer; and many others.
Intermingled with the satirical fantasies, in Peter Simple's familiar style, are more straightforward reflections on a period when England groaned under the heel of the Wilson Junta and the world itself showed few signs, if any, of becoming a better place. Events have a habit of catching up with Peter Simple's visions, and some of his more uncomfortable prophecies are already being fulfilled.
With numerous illustrations by Michael ffolkes
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