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  • Say Who You Are
    Keith Waterhouse / Willis Hall
    A husband’s affair with a teenage mistress provokes his wife to arrange secret liaisons for a randy neighbour...2 women, 2 men ...
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    18,97 €

  • Jubb (Valancourt 20th Century Classics)
    Keith Waterhouse
    C. L. Jubb is thirty-six, married, gainfully employed, and active in his community, both in local government and as a volunteer youth leader working with disadvantaged boys. But as he narrates the story of his downfall, we begin to see that he is other things as well: a voyeur, a fetishist, a racist, an admirer of Mussolini, and above all, a man obsessed by his sexual fantasies...
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    25,27 €

  • Billy Liar on the Moon (Valancourt 20th Century Classics)
    Keith Waterhouse
    ’The funniest book I’ve read for years’ - The Times (London)’Among the few great writers of our time’ - Auberon Waugh, The Independent’Well written and amusing’ - Library JournalKeith Waterhouse’s comic masterpiece Billy Liar (1959) introduced us to Billy Fisher, a seventeen-year-old undertaker’s clerk whose inability to tell the truth led him into constant (and often hilarious...
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    22,78 €

  • There Is a Happy Land
    Keith Waterhouse
    ’[A]mong the few great writers of our time.’ - Auberon Waugh, The Independent’He gets into the mind of his eleven-year-old, sees the world from the height of three foot six . . . The book is vivid, accurate, perceptive . . . how brilliant - and how honestly - the author makes his original effect.’ - The Observer’An exceptionally talented novelist.’ - The Sunday Times’Remarkable...
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    20,32 €

  • Keith Waterhouse
    Keith Waterhouse
    Keith Waterhouse is one of Britain’s most popular writers in nearly every field. This collection brings together for the first time his most celebrated plays from a career spanning more than forty years.Our Song is a warm, tender, romantic drama, infused with moments of great humour. Pulling himself out of the rut of his middle-aged executive lifestyle, Roger Piper stumbles int...
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    32,18 €

  • The Theory and Practice of Travel
    Keith Waterhouse
    A hard-headed but often hilarious guide to the pleasures and pitfalls of travel by one of Britain's favourite writers. 3 ...
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    16,45 €

  • The Theory and Practice of Lunch
    Keith Waterhouse
    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. Thre...
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    18,88 €

  • Waterhouse on Newspaper Style
    Keith Waterhouse
    Edited by Stella Bingham and republished in 2010, Waterhouse on Newspaper Style is still the standard, and most entertaining, manual of tabloid journalism, as important and relevant today as when it was first published in 1989. 3 ...
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    16,28 €

  • Billy Liar
    Keith Waterhouse
    Penguin Decades bring you the novels that helped shape modern Britain. When they were published some were bestsellers some were considered scandalous and others were simply misunderstood. All represent their time and helped define their generation while today each is considered a landmark work of storytelling.Keith Waterhouse’s Billy Liar was published in 1959 and captures...
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    19,44 €

  • Good Grief
    Keith Waterhouse
    A sensitive, wryly humorous study of a middle-aged widow who finds the courage to break with the past. June keeps a diary in the form of private conversations with her late husband Sam, a national newspaper editor. Her stepdaughter, Pauline, determines to keep an eye on June. Likewise, Eric Grant, an ex-colleague of Sam’s. But June strikes out on her own and befriends Duggie, w...
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    18,64 €

  • Our Song
    Keith Waterhouse
    Pulling himself out of the rut of his middle-aged executive lifestyle, Roger Piper stumbles into a sixteen-month tempestuous affair with the effervescent Angela Caxton, and is thrown into a whirlwind of romances and champagne. He discovers that Angie does not share his obsession with their relationship and after multiple crises the affair ends in tragedy.3 women, 4 men ...
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    18,67 €

  • Jeffrey Bernard is Unwell
    Keith Waterhouse
    Gambler, journalist, fervent alcoholic and four-times married Jeffrey Bernard writes the '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 (the title being the euphemism used by the Spectator when Bernard is incapable o...
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    20,46 €

  • Worzel Gummidge
    Keith Waterhouse / Willis Hall
    Following the successful television series based on Barbara Euphan Todd’s children’s classic, Keith Waterhouse, Willis Hall and Denis King bring us a new, effervescent stage musical of the story of Worzel Gummidge. The naughty, petulant, greedy, yet always lovable scarecrow is here with all the familiar characters: Aunt Sally, Sergeant Beetroot and Sue and John. Brought to life...
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    18,78 €

  • Celebration - A Play
    Keith Waterhouse / Willis Hall
    The Wedding and The Funeral make up the two parts of this comedy in which we are introduced to the same family, first making preparations for a wedding and subsequently, six months later, returning from the funeral of their Uncle Arthur, a lovable personality who provides the link between the two plays.7 women, 7 men ...
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    18,70 €

  • All Things Bright and Beautiful
    Keith Waterhouse / Willis Hall
    An exhuberant comedy which is yet a sad commentary on twentieth-century bureaucracy. The Hesseltines are living in property well overdue for demolition and they are looking forward to being re-housed in more beautiful and salutory surroundings. The crisis comes when they find that, far from a house with a little bit of garden, they are to live in a warrenous block of flats.-3 w...
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    18,48 €

  • Billy Liar - A Comedy
    Keith Waterhouse / Willis Hall
    A teenager in a North Country town, Billy Fisher weaves a world of his own out of his day dreams. He is an incurable liar, idle and dishonest, and to escape from his dull job as an undertaker’s clerk and his dreary domestic background he imagines himself in so many different situations that truth and fiction become hopelessly intermingled. His family is unable to understand or ...
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    19,06 €

  • Children’s Day - A Play
    Keith Waterhouse / Willis Hall
    A hectic children’s birthday party provides a noisy background to a series of domestic crises. Robin has left Emma and Emma has become friendly with her solicitor, Tom; both Tom and Robin arrive for the celebrations. The mishaps of the party spill over into the kitchen’situation, the behaviour of the young visitors affecting the adults. By the end of the party however, thin’s l...
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    18,51 €

  • Who’s Who?
    Keith Waterhouse / Willis Hall
    Who’s Who takes place in the lounge of a Brighton hotel a place of faded elegance where the inevitable trio saw away playing sad and dated ballads. In the first act we follow the confusion that Mr. Black and Mr. White land themselves in as inextricable as the hotel itself in their efforts to cover up a clandestine weekend; a confusion which ends in no one knowing anyone else’s ...
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    18,60 €