Puckoon is Spike Milligan's classic slapstick novel, reissued for the first time since it was published in 1963. 'Pops with the erratic brilliance of a careless match in a box of fireworks' Daily Mail In 1924 the Boundary Commission is tasked with creating the new official division between Northern Ireland and the Irish Republic. Through incompetence, dereliction of duty and sheer perversity, the border ends up running through the middle of the small town of Puckoon. Houses are divided from outhouses, husbands separated from wives, bars are cut off from their patrons, churches sundered from graveyards. And in the middle of it all is poor Dan Milligan, our feckless protagonist, who is taunted and manipulated by everyone (including the sadistic author) to try and make some sense of this mess . . . 'Bursts at the seams with superb comic characters involved in unbelievably likely troubles on the Irish border' Observer 'Our first comic philosopher' Eddie Izzard Spike Milligan was one of the greatest and most influential comedians of the twentieth century. Born in India in 1918, he served in the Royal Artillery during WWII in North Africa and Italy. At the end of the war, he forged a career as a jazz musician, sketch-show writer and performer, before joining forces with Peter Sellers and Harry Secombe to form the legendary Goon Show. Until his death in 2002, he had success as on stage and screen and as the author of over eighty books of fiction, memoir, poetry, plays, cartoons and children's stories.
Monty His Part in My Victory is volume three of Spike Milligan s outrageous hilarious legendary War Memoirs It s all over Von Arnheim has surrendered and he s very angry This could mean war The third volume of Spike Milligan s laugh a line account of life as a gunner in World War Two resumes on the eve of victory in North Africa Now Britain s looniest war hero must combat some of the direst threats a soldier has ever faced boredom Christ I just thought of Catford a cold In this weather Yed moving camp It s a sort of Brighton with camels relaxing on the beach Life was golden and we were the assayers moving camp again We re already somewhere else a visit to Carthage It s terrible it s like Catford and a perilous encounter with the gloriously endowed Mademoiselle Villion Help massage I said weakly Against the odds they survive and are sent at last to Italy to be killed Desperately funny vivid vulgar Sunday Times Milligan is the Great God to all of us John Cleese The Godfather of Alternative Comedy Eddie Izzard That absolutely glorious way of looking at things differently A great man Stephen Fry Spike Milligan was one of the greatest and most influential comedian
