#LiteraryAdventCalendar Day 13.
A perfect build to an exquisite punchline from Father Ted, by Graham Linehan and Arthur Mathews. The parochial house gets a visit from senior nun, Sister Assumpta (click to see the whole thing):
A perfect build to an exquisite punchline from Father Ted, by Graham Linehan and Arthur Mathews. The parochial house gets a visit from senior nun, Sister Assumpta (click to see the whole thing):
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A little excerpt from one of Susie Steiner’s Manon Bradshaw novels; how many writers of police procedurals can produce not only a gripping plot but also brilliantly funny glimpses of a believable domestic life? What a star Susie was....
Clive James in his role as TV critic, joyfully eviscerating 'The Man From Atlantis', a truly terrible 70s series starring Patrick Duffy, (who was also dreadful in 'Dallas'):
A brief extract from Monica Dickens' autobiography, casually packing more drama into a single sentence than most people manage in an entire volume.
I wish someone would re-issue her…
My favourite is ‘The Fancy’
A perfect summation by @DyerGeoff of the sublime pain of being a Brookner heroine.
Dixon wakes with a hangover (from Lucky Jim by Kingsley Amis).
Wow.
Posy Simmonds turns her gimlet eye on the school nativity play....