A Lion Was Learning to Ski, and Other Nonsensical Verse

Ranjit Bolt

ISBN 10: 1783340827 / ISBN 13: 9781783340828

Published by Gibson Square Books Ltd, 2015

About this Item

Dispatched, from the UK, within 48 hours of ordering. This book is in good condition but will show signs of previous ownership. Please expect some creasing to the spine and/or minor damage to the cover. Aged book. Tanned pages and age spots, however, this will not interfere with reading.

Seller Inventory # CHL8663322

Bibliographic Details

• Title: A Lion Was Learning to Ski, and Other Nonsensical Verse
• Publisher: Gibson Square Books Ltd
• Publication Date: 2015
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1783340827
• ISBN 13: 9781783340828
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Used; Good

About this title

Synopsis

When he came across an old-English limerick that made him laugh, playwright Ranjit Bolt started writing nonsensical verse to entertain his friends. On a whim he decided to staple some together and offer them at a market in his home town of Cambridge when not writing plays. Readers would go away chuckling to themselves and the booklets flew away. Their chuckling response led to A Lion Was Learning to Ski.

About the Author

Ranjit Bolt was born in Manchester and studied at the University of Oxford. He worked in London for eight years as a stockbroker, writing and translating plays verse at night (his father is the poet and don Sydney Bolt, his uncle the poet and screenwriter Robert Bolt). When Jonathan Miller staged one of his plays, it became a surprise success and he a fulltime playwright. He now lives and writes in Cambridge and London.