The Wimbledon Poisoner

Zusatztext The Wimbledon Poisoner is a marvelously funny book. Informationen zum Autor Nigel Williams is the author of twelve novels - including the best-selling Wimbledon Trilogy. His stage plays include Class Enemy , still being performed all over the world, and a dramatisation of William Golding's Lord of the Flies recently revived at the Regent's Park Theatre. He also wrote the Emmy and Golden Globe award-winning Elizabeth I , starring Helen Mirren, while his BBC Radio 4 comedy 'HR' , with Jonathan Pryce and Nicholas le Prevost, is now in its fourth series. He has lived in Putney for thirty years. Klappentext First book in the Wimbledon Trilogy 'A marvellously funny book.' Daily Mail Henry Farr is forty years old. He is suburban, average, conventional - and desperate to be rid of his wife, Elinor. Inspired by a grisly episode in Wimbledon's local history, Farr begins to concoct a recipe for the perfect murder. But his plans go terribly, terribly wrong - and before long, poor Henry's best efforts to set himself free, in fact send him spiralling wildly out of control. 'I laughed aloud sufficiently that it was necessary to sit in a room on my own to read it.' Spectator 'A brilliantly witty writer.' The Sunday Times 'Comic set pieces comparable to Wodehouse.' New Statesman £8.99 [ISBN barcode: 978-1-47210-676-6] www.constablerobinson.com [insert Corsair logo] Cover illustration by Tom Gauld Designed by [insert details] Read more in The Wimbledon Trilogy [Insert thumbnails of East of Wimbledon and They Came From SW19 ] A welcome re-issue of Nigel William's modern classic of comic writing. Zusammenfassung A welcome re-issue of Nigel William's modern classic of comic writing.

The Wimbledon Poisoner is a marvelously funny book.

Vorwort
A welcome re-issue of Nigel William's modern classic of comic writing.

Autorentext

Nigel Williams is the author of twelve novels - including the best-selling Wimbledon Trilogy. His stage plays includeClass Enemy, still being performed all over the world, and a dramatisation of William Golding's Lord of the Flies recently revived at the Regent's Park Theatre. He also wrote the Emmy and Golden Globe award-winning Elizabeth I, starring Helen Mirren, while his BBC Radio 4 comedy 'HR' , with Jonathan Pryce and Nicholas le Prevost, is now in its fourth series. He has lived in Putney for thirty years.

Klappentext

First book in the Wimbledon Trilogy
'A marvellously funny book.' Daily Mail
Henry Farr is forty years old. He is suburban, average, conventional - and desperate to be rid of his wife, Elinor. Inspired by a grisly episode in Wimbledon's local history, Farr begins to concoct a recipe for the perfect murder. But his plans go terribly, terribly wrong - and before long, poor Henry's best efforts to set himself free, in fact send him spiralling wildly out of control.
'I laughed aloud sufficiently that it was necessary to sit in a room on my own to read it.' Spectator
'A brilliantly witty writer.' The Sunday Times
'Comic set pieces comparable to Wodehouse.' New Statesman
£8.99
[ISBN barcode: 978-1-47210-676-6]
www.constablerobinson.com
[insert Corsair logo]
Cover illustration by Tom Gauld
Designed by [insert details]
Read more in The Wimbledon Trilogy
[Insert thumbnails of East of Wimbledon and They Came From SW19]

Zusammenfassung
A welcome re-issue of Nigel William's modern classic of comic writing.