Alfie Bell is .Β .Β . fine. He's got a six-figure salary, a penthouse in Canary Wharf, the car he swore he'd buy when he was eighteen, and a bunch of fancy London friends. It's rough, though, going back to South Shields now that they all know he's a fully paid-up pansy. It's the last place he's expec
Rancid Pansies
β Scribed by Hamilton-Paterson, James
- Book ID
- 109039964
- Publisher
- Faber & Faber
- Year
- 2012
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 212 KB
- Series
- Gerald Samper 3
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN-13
- 9780571267668
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
β¦ Synopsis
Gerald Samper is not a lucky man. Ghost writer of terrible celebrity memoirs and lethally bad cook, he now watches as his beloved house falls off a hill in Tuscany. But he and his guests have been saved from certain death by an apparition - in the form of a certain deceased English princess with great legs. Or, at least, that's how the money-spinning rumour has it... And so begins a farcical comedy of eccentric Diana pilgrims, dead dinner guests, bad opera and Gerry's speciality field-mouse vol-au-vents. Every bit as outrageous as Cooking with Fernet Branca, James Hamilton-Paterson's latest novel is not for anyone who takes royalty (or, indeed, anything else) too seriously.
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