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PaperbackEngels9780753512128
5-4-2007
For the first time, this diverse and thrilling selection of scripts, sketches, poems, prose and nonsense is available in paperback. The combination of quickfire wit and downright silliness is supported by contributions from some of showbusiness' greatest entertainers, including Barry Humphreys and Ronnie Scott. Meer
PaperbackEngels9780007195428
3-5-2005
This second superb collected work of one of Britain's best-loved comedians is an excellent companion to the sensational original, ‘The Essential Spike Milligan’. Meer
PaperbackEngels9780241966921
4-9-2014
Collects from one of the greatest comics of the twentieth century to some of its most famous politicians, actors, celebrities and rock stars (as well as a host of unlikely individuals on some surprising subjects): rounded teabags ('what did you do with the corners? Meer
PaperbackEngels9780140239706
28-7-1994
In the Bible, according to author: "In the beginning God created the Heaven and Earth and darkness was upon the face of the deep; this was due to a malfunction at Lots Road Power Station. Meer
PaperbackEngels9780753539279
7-2-2011
In this last of Spike's hilarious reinterpretations of the classic works of litarature, all the familiar faces of Robert Louis Stevenson's original version appear: Squire Trelawney, Jim Hawkins and Long John Silver. Meer
PaperbackEngels9780753503034
16-9-1999
This version of Robin Hood has Robin and his merry men when the King's deer manage to evade their arrows, dining out at McDonald's, Kentucky Fried Chicken and eating jam sandwiches, Nevertheless, they are still more than willing to do battle with Robin's arch enemy Sir Guy de Custard Gisborne. Meer
PaperbackEngels9780753508411
9-10-2003
'Spike Milligan wrote the book on today's sense of humour''But why keep me in the dark, Holmes?''It saves electicity, Watson.''What is a black spot? Meer
PaperbackEngels9780753501023
18-9-1997
I never felt more like kicking so I kicked him in the goolies and they swelled up like melons. He had to put the harness on me while balancing his balls with one hand and could only move very slowly. Meer
PaperbackEngels9780753539200
7-2-2011
Sherlock Holmes and his trusty companion, Dr Watson, are working together once more to solve the mystery at Baskerville Hall. This time, however, there's something fishy about the hound, a woman cries in the night, Guiness and Newcastle Brown are taken intravenously and the Berlin Philharmonic keep running out of things to play. Meer
PaperbackEngels9780007155118
2-6-2003
A Spike Milligan opus, containing everything from classics to hidden gems, with a foreword by Eddie Izzard. Meer
PaperbackEngels9780140110821
3-8-1989
Adolf Hitler, Monty, Mussolini, Rommel (who?) - all played their modest parts in the Second World War and the shaping of human destiny, but we all know where the real action was. Meer
PaperbackEngels9780241955956
7-6-2012
With his lightning-quick wit, unbridled creativity and his ear for the absurd, Milligan revolutionised British comedy. Throughout his life, Milligan also wrote prolifically - scripts, poetry, fiction, as well as several volumes of memoir, in which he took an entirely idiosyncratic approach to the truth. Meer
PaperbackEngels9780140587883
4-12-1997
A collection of tender(ish) moments. It consists of three individual volumes now collected together ("Small Dreams Of A Scorpion", "Open Heart University" and "The Mirror Running") as well as a number of previously unpublished poems. Meer
PaperbackEngels9780241958148
6-9-2012
Offer an account of author's part in World War Two that sees our hero doing very little soldiering. Because it's 1946. Rather, he is now part of the Bill Hall Trio - a 'Combined Services Entertainment' inflicted on unsuspecting soldiers across Italy and Austria - and is largely preoccupied with the unbearably beautiful ballerina, Ms Toni Fontana. Meer
PaperbackEngels9780241958100
6-9-2012
Offers recollections of life as a gunner in World War Two that sees our hero into battle in North Africa - eventually. Meer
PaperbackEngels9780241958124
6-9-2012
Offers an account of author's time in the army during World War Two that begins as he and his regiment land in sunny Italy in 1943 ('The ship touched the beach very gently, so gently I suspect it's not insured'). Meer
PaperbackEngels9780241958117
6-9-2012
An account of life as a gunner in World War Two that resumes on the eve of victory in North Africa. Meer
PaperbackEngels9780241958155
6-9-2012
From the giddy heights of Hackney Empire to a Zurich Freak Show and beyond, the author makes his way through backwaters of showbiz, first as band musician then as one-man wild-act and eventually in the company of a group of like-minded comedians called Harry Secombe, Michael Bentine and Peter Sellers. Meer
PaperbackEngels9780140023749
25-1-1973
In 1924 the Boundary Commission is tasked with creating the new official division between Northern Ireland and the Irish Republic. Through incompetence, dereliction of duty and sheer perversity, the border ends up running through the middle of the small town of Puckoon. Meer