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Penguins Stopped Play
Harry Thompson, Harry Thompson
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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.
Except - hold on a minute - that's not a simple idea at all. 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.
Harry Thompson's 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.
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Praise for Harry Thompson and Penguins Stopped Play: - .Actually completely brilliant - Ian HislopA real gold standard sense of humour - David BaddielRare, clever, creative ... a maverick, pushing boundaries with outrageous jokes - GuardianCrammed with sharp observation, comic and cruel characterisation and a great many very good jokes... Gloriously funny and life-affirming - Daily TelegraphSurely the funniest book ever written about the English addiction to cricket...a beautiful tale of classic British humour, self-deprecation, great courage - Daily MailEven people who despise cricket will adore this - TimesIsn't only a marvellous read but in many ways captures the very essence of the game - Observer
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