Penguins Stopped Play
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A hilarious odyssey in which an amateurish bunch of English eccentrics go cricketing across the globe

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Harry Thompson is the inventor and editor of many TV comedy series including Have I Got News For You and Never Mind the Buzzcocks. He is the author of acclaimed bestsellers, including Peter Cook: A Biography. His most recent book is a historical novel, This Thing of Darkness. He worked as a producer at Talkback TV and in his spare time ran an infamous cricket team, the Captain Scott XI. He died in November 2005.

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Praise for Harry Thompson and Penguins Stopped Play: -- . 'Actually completely brilliant' -- Ian Hislop 'A real gold standard sense of humour' -- David Baddiel 'Rare, clever, creative ! a maverick, pushing boundaries with outrageous jokes' -- Guardian 'Crammed with sharp observation, comic and cruel characterisation and a great many very good jokes...Gloriously funny and life-affirming' -- Daily Telegraph 'Surely the funniest book ever written about the English addiction to cricket...a beautiful tale of classic British humour, self-deprecation, great courage' -- Daily Mail 'Even people who despise cricket will adore this' -- Times 'Very funny ...he fills his warm-hearted book with a satisfying selection of tales' -- Sunday Times 'Funny and inspiring...Thompson writes with a novelist's sympathy about a wonderfully mixed bunch of characters' - Hugh Massingberd -- Literary Review 'As funny as you would expect from the writer of Have I Got News For You'" -- Daily Express 'Harry Thompson wrote with such verve and wit that he could have made a trip round a multi-storey car park into an adventure' -- Celia Brayfield, The Times 'A very funny, peculiarly British travel book' -- Markus Berkman, Daily Mail

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