“blissful British comedies for the intellectual escapist” - London Times
“[a] comic masterpiece” - The Belfast Telegraph
“the great pleasure in this romp derives from Israel’s glum-in-his-Guinness rueful world view...” - Washington Post
Ian Sansom is the author of 10 books of fiction and non-fiction. He is a former Fellow of Emmanuel College, Cambridge and a former Writer-in-Residence at the Seamus Heaney Centre for Poetry in Belfast. He is currently a Professor in the Department of English and Comparative Literary Studies at the University of Warwick. He is a regular broadcaster on BBC Radio 4 and Radio 3 and he writes for The Guardian and The London Review of Books.
“blissful British comedies for the intellectual escapist” - London Times
“[a] comic masterpiece” - The Belfast Telegraph
“the great pleasure in this romp derives from Israel’s glum-in-his-Guinness rueful world view...” - Washington Post