'Completely brilliant'Ian HislopIt seemed a simple enough idea at the outset: to assemble a team of eleven men to play cricket on each of the seven continents of the globe. Except - hold on a minute - that's not a simple idea at all. And when you throw in incompetent airline officials,amorous Argentine Colonels'wives,cunning Bajan drug dealers,gay Australian waiters,overzealous American anti-terrorist police,idiot Welshmen dressed as Santa Claus,Archbishop Desmond Tutu and whole armies of pitch-invading Antarctic penguins,you quickly arrive at a whole lot more than you bargained for.Harry Thompson's hilarious book tells the story of one of those great idiotic enterprises that only an Englishman could have dreamed up,and only a bunch of Englishmen could possibly have wished to carry out.
Publisher: John Murray PressISBN: 9780719563461Number of pages: 320Weight: 222 gDimensions: 197 x 130 x 21 mm
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Praise for Harry Thompson and Penguins Stopped Play:'Actually completely brilliant''A real gold standard sense of humour''Rare,clever,creative...a maverick,pushing boundaries with outrageous jokes''Crammed with sharp observation,comic and cruel characterisation and a great many very good jokes... Gloriously funny and life-affirming''Surely the funniest book ever written about the English addiction to cricket...a beautiful tale of classic British humour,self-deprecation,great courage''Even people who despise cricket will adore this''Isn't only a marvellous read but in many ways captures the very essence of the game''Very funny . . .he fills his warm-hearted book with a satisfying selection of tales''Funny and inspiring...Thompson writes with a novelist's sympathy about a wonderfully mixed bunch of characters'- Hugh Massingberd'As funny as you would expect from the writer of Have I Got News For You''Harry Thompson wrote with such verve and wit that he could have made a trip round a multi-storey car park into an adventure''A very funny,peculiarly British travel book''A rip-roaring and at times touching account of a global tour by a bunch of village cricketers'
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