
a maverick, pushing boundaries with outrageous jokes Guardian Crammed with sharp observation, comic and cruel characterisation and a great many very good jokes. Actually completely brilliant Ian Hislop A real gold standard sense of humour David Baddiel Rare, clever, creative. Harry Thompsons hilarious book tells the story of one of those great idiotic enterprises that only an Englishman could have dreamed up, and only a bunch of Englishmen could possibly have wished to carry out.-> the publisher of this PAPERBACK book is Scholastic in 2007 booksalvation have grade it as Very Good and it will be shipped from our UK warehouse Shipping is Free for UK buyers and at a reasonable charge for buyer outside the UK The text is in English. Harry Thompson worked on Radio 4s News Quiz and on Have I Got News For You. Praise for Harry Thompson and Penguins Stopped Play. And when you throw in incompetent airline officials, amorous Argentine Colonels wives, cunning Bajan drug dealers, gay Australian waiters, overzealous American anti-terrorist police, idiot Welshmen dressed as Santa Claus, Archbishop Desmond Tutu and whole armies of pitch-invading Antarctic penguins, you quickly arrive at a whole lot more than you bargained for. Except - hold on a minute - thats not a simple idea at all. Most Saturday leagues play this format with points received for passing a. Harry Thompson was divorced from his wife, Fiona, with whom he had a son and a daughter. Penguins Stopped Play, will be published next year.


About The Book:- Completely brilliant Ian Hislop It seemed a simple enough idea at the outset: to assemble a team of eleven men to play cricket on each of the seven continents of the globe. Harry Thompson, who died on Monday aged 45. Determined to play another day, the Penguins put to rest any doubt as to who would grab the second seed in the.
