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This text provides a manual of tabloid journalism for students and everybody in the business.
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'Among the few great writers of our time' Independent 'An exceptionally talented novelist' Sunday Times 'Remarkable for the deep and unwavering insight it gives into child behaviour' The Times Seen through the eyes of a young boy living on a council estate in a northern town, a pre-war childhood emerges that is universal in its everyday adventures, shifting allegiances, mysteries and occasional tragedy. Yet it is also one that is rooted firmly in a bygone era of innocence. Acclaimed on its first publication, There is a Happy Land marked the debut of a brilliant new talent and is now seen as a much-loved classic.
Captures the claustrophobic atmosphere of a small town. This title tells the story of Billy Fisher, a Yorkshire teenager unable to stop lying - especially to his three girlfriends.
"I wondered what I personally had done which, having done it, I could write about. I discovered that I had done nothing at all except live for twenty-two consecutive years."--Jacket.
Keith Waterhouse tells the story of his childhood and adolescence in soot-blackened, tramcar-rattling Leeds. He describes roaming the cities theatres, variety-halls and teashops, and life as a junior reporter, as well as the characters he encountered, providing a portrait of England's past.
Gambler, journalist, fervent alcoholic and four time married Jeffrey Bernard writes the weekly 'Low Life' column for the Spectator magazine, chronicling Soho life as well as offering a very personal philosophy on vodka, women and race-courses. From this, Keith Waterhouse has brilliantly constructed a play which is set in the saloon bar of Bernard's favourite Soho pub, the Coach and Horses.
Keith Waterhouse is very particular about what lunch is not: 'It is not prawn cocktail, steak and Black Forest gateau with your bank manger. It is not civic, commemorative, annual office or funeral. It is not when either party is on a diet, on the wagon or in a hurry.' He is equally precise about what lunch is: 'It is a mid-day meal taken at leisure by, ideally, two people. Three's a crowd, four always split like a double amoeba into two pairs, six is a meeting, eight is a conference... A little light business may be touched upon but the occasion is firmly social. Whether they know it or not, for as long as they linger in the restaurant they are having an affair. The affair is lunch.' The Theory and Practice of Lunch is an authoritative and delightfully witty manual on the art of taking the most agreeable meal of the day, written by a shrewd observer of the passing show who listed his sole hobby in Who's Who as 'Lunch'.
Mrs Pooter, on discovering that her husband is keeping a diary, decides not to be outdone. This comic and affectionately drawn story creates a charming vista of the lifestyle during the early years of the 20th century.