Pigs Might Fly: More Dales Tales from the Author of The Inn at the Top (Signed Copy)

Neil Hanson

ISBN 10: 0957253419 / ISBN 13: 9780957253414

Published by Dale Publishing, UK, 2015

About this Item

9780957253414. Softcover. Not ex. library. 256 pages, illustrated. SIGNED on the half title page, without dedication, by Neil Hanson. Contents clean, tight and bright.

Seller Inventory # 033013

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Pigs Might Fly: More Dales Tales from the Author of The Inn at the Top (Signed Copy)
• Publisher: Dale Publishing, UK
• Publication Date: 2015
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0957253419
• ISBN 13: 9780957253414
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: Near Fine
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)
• Book Type: Book
• Seller catalogs:
  • signed copy

About this title

Synopsis

“Reminiscent of James Herriot.” The Dalesman

“Massively readable, full of rich anecdote, amusing characters.” Gervase Phinn

The author of the best-selling The Inn at the Top is back with more tales of the highest inn in Britain, deep in the Yorkshire Dales and just over the moor from the Yorkshire Shepherdess. Joining the cast of local characters are a theatrical pig, a spiky punk barmaid, two Australian handymen and a Walter Mittyesque chef.

The naive young couple who ran the decrepit inn in the late 1970s return as its new owners. Stumbling from one crisis to another, they somehow make the inn famous, and “conquer Everest” when the double-glazing company film a TV commercial there. Enter Ted Moult and his famous feather to keep the gales off the ales…

Full of warmth and humour, the beauty of the Dales countryside and the quirks of the local inhabitants, Pigs Might Fly paints an unforgettable portrait of a unique place and way of life in a now-vanished era.

About the Author

Neil Hanson has crammed an awful lot of living into just one life. He has travelled around the world twice; been a plasterer's mate, an ice cream salesman and a holiday camp redcoat; was simultaneously an art critic and a rugby league commentator; the editor of the Good Beer Guide; the owner of the highest pub in England; a book reviewer, travel writer and critic; and a radio broadcaster for the BBC and in Australia and New Zealand. He has written for every British national newspaper and for media around the world, made guest appearances on everything from BBC Television's flagship news program to Australia's top-rated radio show and NBC's Today Show. He is also a highly successful after-dinner speaker and has written sixty published books.
Neil is also the author of an acclaimed series of popular histories: The Custom of the Sea; The Dreadful Judgement; The Confident Hope of a Miracle; The Unknown Soldier; First Blitz; Monk Eastman; and Escape From Germany. Critics around the world have hailed them as "brilliant", "compelling", "a triumph" and "a masgterpiece".
He lives in the Yorkshire Dales with his family.

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