I bought this yesterday on a secondhand bookshop bargain shelf in Bedford. I probably should have left it there. The poetry was not particularly funny, neither were the sketches and the stories were hit and miss, mostly miss. I gave up on it before I got to his letters to Harry Secombe section.
No. 5 of 50 books I intend to read and review in 2024.
I’m Patrick Sherriff, an Englishman who survived 13 years working for newspapers in the US, UK and Japan. Between teaching English lessons at my conversation school in Abiko, Japan, I write and illustrate textbooks for non-native speakers of English, release Hana Walker mystery novels, short stories, paint, and write essays and Our Man in Abiko, a monthly newsletter highlighting good writing in English, often about about Japan, art, crime fiction and teaching.
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