The Fall And Rise Of Reginald Perrin

Author : David Nobbs
Publisher : Random House
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2014-11-20
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781473519381

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The Fall And Rise Of Reginald Perrin by David Nobbs Pdf

Reginald Iolanthe Perrin is sick to death with selling exotic ices at Sunshine Desserts. He's fed up with his boss C.J. who delights in making his life hell. And he's had enough of his eager young assistants who think everything is 'super'. So begins Reggie's battle against consumerism. Driven to desperation by the rat race and the unpunctuality of Britain's trains, Reggie's small eccentricities escalate to the extreme. Until, finally, he leaves behind the unacceptable face of capitalism altogether. Driven off in a motorised jelly, and creating the world's biggest loganberry slick on his way, he dumps his clothes on a Dorset beach and sets off for new adventures...

Author : David Nobbs
Publisher : Random House
Page : 317 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2013-02-08
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781409067528

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The Fall And Rise Of Reginald Perrin by David Nobbs Pdf

NEWLY DRAMATISED ON RADIO 4 'Manages to find joy in the trivial and creates farce out of monotony . . . To say that a book has 'changed your life' has become so commonplace that it has become almost meaningless. Nonetheless, I think that in this case, it is probably true' JONATHAN COE From the bestselling author of Going Gently and the hugely successful autobiography I Didn't Get Where I Am Today Reginald Iolanthe Perrin is sick to death with selling exotic ices at Sunshine Desserts. He's fed up with his boss C.J. who delights in making his life hell. And he's had enough of his eager young assistants who think everything is 'super'. So begins Reggie's battle against consumerism. Driven to desperation by the rat race and the unpunctuality of Britain's trains, Reggie's small eccentricities escalate to the extreme. Until, finally, he leaves behind the unacceptable face of capitalism altogether. Driven off in a motorised jelly, and creating the world's biggest loganberry slick on his way, he dumps his clothes on a Dorset beach and sets off for new adventures . . .

Author : David Nobbs
Publisher : Random House
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2014-11-20
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781473519398

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The Return Of Reginald Perrin by David Nobbs Pdf

This hilarious sequel to The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin follows his absurd trials and tribulations as he finds himself swept to fame and fortune.

Author : David Nobbs
Publisher : Random House
Page : 896 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2014-11-20
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781473519428

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Reginald Perrin Omnibus by David Nobbs Pdf

Reginald Iolanthe Perrin is surely one of the best loved comedy heroes of our time, in both literature and television. This omnibus brings together the first three Reginald Perrin novels containing a lifetime's outrageous and hilarious adventures. When we first meet Reggie, he is sick to death with selling exotic ices at Sunshine Desserts. Driven to desperation by the rat race and the unpunctuality of Britain's trains, Reggie's small eccentricites escalate to the extreme, until finally he leaves the unacceptable face of capitalism behind by driving off in a stolen motorised jelly. In his pursuit of the unconventional, he devotes himself to faking his own death, opening a shop devoted to selling completely useless goods, and setting up a commune strictly for the middle-class and middle-aged. Join Reggie, who didn't get where he is today without some help from some memorable supporting characters, in one man's quest to avoid an everyday existence.

Author : David Nobbs
Publisher : Random House
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2014-11-20
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781473519503

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Going Gently by David Nobbs Pdf

Kate Thomas was beautiful, intelligent, witty, passionate and sexy. Now, at the ripe old age of ninety-nine, she is trapped in a hospital ward of sad, mad and bad old women. She escapes by playing to herself the video of her life. What a life it has been. Her six marriages have ended in suicide, a husband's adultery, another husband's deportation as a dangerous alien, a union dispute, a murder, and a natural death. But Kate's journey through the twentieth century is also a search for the truth - about life, death, and which of her three sons murdered her fifth husband. This is a novel rich in memorable characters, from Kate's narrow but loving Welsh family to the wild members of an artists' colony in Cornwall; from Midland piston manufacturers to an investigative journalist whose own life cannot bear investigation.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:861265542

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The fall and rise of Reginald Perrin by Anonim Pdf

Author : David Nobbs
Publisher : Random House
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2014-11-20
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781473519510

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Legacy Of Reginald Perrin by David Nobbs Pdf

*The fourth book of the classic comic series about the 'sweaty, charming, paunchy, sad, hilarious man' who faked his own death. First published in the late 1970s, the three previous books were made into an immensely popular BBC TV series starring Leonard Rossiter. *THE LEGACY OF REGINALD PERRIN is set in the present day, and Reggie is now REALLY dead. He's bequeathed vast sums of money to his family and old associates on the condition that each performs a really absurd act. Here is the return of all the favourite Perrin characters, whose hilarious catch-phrases have become by-words: Reggie's hopeless brother-in-law Jimmy ('Bit of a cock-up on the catering front'), and his old boss at Sunshine Desserts, C. J. ('I did'nt get where I am today by. . . ')

Author : David Nobbs
Publisher : Random House
Page : 512 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2014-11-20
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781473519480

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I Didn't Get Where I Am Today by David Nobbs Pdf

As a small boy David Nobbs survived the Second World War unscathed, until his bedroom ceiling fell on him when the last bomb to be dropped on Britain by the Germans landed near his home. It was the nearest he came to the war, but National Service would later make him one of Britain's most reluctant soldiers. It was an unforgettable and often unpleasant experience. As a struggling writer, David was catapulted into the thrilling world of satire at the BBC when he rang THAT WAS THE WEEK THAT WAS with a joke and got through to David Frost, who sent a taxi for the joke. He never looked back. His greatness as a modern comic writer was confirmed by the publication of THE FALL AND RISE OF REGINALD PERRIN, which he adapted into the immensely successful television series that has entered the fabric of British cultural life, through phrases, images and brilliant humour. A mesmerising, beautifully told tale of life in writing and comedy, I DIDN'T GET WHERE I AM TODAY is the hilarious, poignant and very personal story of David Nobbs' life, which also describes some of the most famous comedians of the last century and captures a golden age of British television.

Author : David Nobbs
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : Fiction in English
ISBN : OCLC:314835258

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The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin by David Nobbs Pdf

Author : David Nobbs
Publisher : Random House
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2014-11-20
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781473519473

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Cupid's Dart by David Nobbs Pdf

Alan and Ange are on a train, heading for London. Alan is a philosophy lecturer, still a virgin at fifty-five; Ange a twenty-something, horoscope reading, darts groupie. They certainly don't expect their first casual meeting to lead to anything, but it does. Seizing the day, as they pull into Euston station, Alan asks Ange out to dinner and so begins the unlikeliest of liaisons. As they get to know each other, they are initiated into each other's worlds. From the claustrophobic confines of an Oxford College to the heady excitement of a big dart's match; from Liebfraumilch to Wittgenstein and everything in between. They even travel to Rome seeing many wonderful things as Alan learns to live for the moment and Ange to appreciate the finer things in life. But can they survive their differences in age and background? Are Alan's feelings the stuff of obsession and infatuation or is this true love? And what sort of philosopher is he if he cannot define and understand love? Told through the voice of Alan, this touching and hilarious story is much more than a tale about an unlikely couple. Ultimately, it is a story about the nature of love.

Author : David Nobbs
Publisher : Random House
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2014-11-20
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781473519404

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The Better World Of Reginald Perrin by David Nobbs Pdf

This hilarious episode in the remarkable exploits of Reginald Iolanthe Perrin follows our hero on his most ambitious venture yet. Setting up a commune strictly for the middle-class and middle-aged, Reggie's therapy centre nurtures its clients, encouraging them to find the love and goodness that lurks deep inside. And he's gathered together the unlikeliest of staff to help him- including C.J. (for people's work problems), David Harris-Jones (handling their sex problems), plus Tony Webster (culture), his son-in-law Tom (sport) and Doc Morrissey (psychology). With a team like this, how can the indomitable, unconventional R.I.P. ever fail in his bid to create a Better World?

Author : David Nobbs
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
Page : 13 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2011-06-23
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780007423668

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It Had to Be You by David Nobbs Pdf

Life after Deborah reaffirms Nobbs as the best writer of comedy and observer of the nuances of human nature that there is today.

Author : Jim Powell
Publisher : Pan Macmillan
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2016-03-10
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781509806447

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Trading Futures by Jim Powell Pdf

'With his gallows humour and observational wit, Jim Powell gives us a vivid portrait of a man in meltdown.' Daily Mail When I was small, my mother showed me how to grow a carrot from a carrot. She filled a jam jar with water, cut the top off a carrot, ran a cocktail stick horizontally through the stub and suspended it over the jar, just touching the water. In time, roots sprouted, and when they were long enough and strong enough, the plant was translated to the garden and new carrots grew. This was one of the many exciting ways in which I was prepared for adult life. This is Matthew Oxenhay at sixty: a stranger to his wife, an embarrassment to his children, and failed former contender for the top job at his City firm. Seizing on his birthday party as an opportunity to deliver some rather crushing home truths to his assembled loved ones, it seems as though Matthew might have hit rock bottom. The truth, however, is that he has some way to go yet . . . With forensic precision and mordant wit, Matthew unpicks the threads that bind him: a comfortable home in the suburbs, a career spent trading futures and a life that bears little resemblance to the one he imagined for himself at twenty. When he unexpectedly bumps into Anna (the one who got away), the stage is set for an epic unravelling. Darkly funny, Trading Futures forces us to confront how change, like death, is an inevitable fact of life: feared by most, it can transform or overwhelm us. This is a brilliantly observed novel, for fans of works such as John Lanchester's Mr Phillips and On Chesil Beach by Ian McEwan. It also featured as Radio 4's Book at Bedtime.

Author : Nick Hornby
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2015-02-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780698170490

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Funny Girl by Nick Hornby Pdf

A brilliant novel from the bestselling author of High Fidelity, About a Boy, and A Long Way Down. Set in 1960's London, Funny Girl is a lively account of the adventures of the intrepid young Sophie Straw as she navigates her transformation from provincial ingénue to television starlet amid a constellation of delightful characters. Insightful and humorous, Nick Hornby's latest does what he does best: endears us to a cast of characters who are funny if flawed, and forces us to examine ourselves in the process.

Author : David Nobbs
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2014-06-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780007500383

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The Second Life of Sally Mottram by David Nobbs Pdf

The wonderfully entertaining new novel from bestselling author of The Fall and Rise of Reggie Perrin.