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JOHN FISHER
The Tommy Cooper Joke Book
publication: 05/05/2011
price: 7.99
size: B format
pages: 192
ISBN: 9781848091993
Put the smile back into Christmas with the definitive Tommy
Cooper Joke Book. Including the pick of Tommy’s own extensive gag
library, favourite stories and photographs
The other night I dreamt I was eating a ten-pound marshmallow. When I
woke up the pillow had gone!
I said to the doctor, ‘Doctor, I’m losing all sense of direction. What should
I do?’ He said, ‘Get lost.’
I’ve got a dog, you know. I have. He’s a one-man dog. He only bites me.
Tommy Cooper died on stage at Her Majesty’s Theatre, London, twentyfive
years ago in April 1984 and is still revered today as probably the greatest
comedian of the second half of the twentieth century. More than just a
comedian, Tommy Cooper was a born entertainer. Working in a golden age
of British comedy, Cooper stood - literally - head and shoulders above the
crowd, and had a magical talent for humour that defied description. With a
love of laughter stemming from a magic performance gone wrong when he
was in his teens, Cooper enlisted in the army in 1939 and began to perfect
his comic timing on his army colleagues in the Egyptian desert. The man
with the fez was born.
John Fisher has enjoyed a long and distinguished career as a
television producer and executive working for both the BBC and ITV.
A recognised authority on the history of popular entertainment, he
worked with Tommy Cooper on several occasions and includes the
bestselling biography Tommy Cooper: Always Leave Them Laughing
amongst his published works. His critically acclaimed life of Cooper’s
contemporary, Tony Hancock, was published last year.
KATHY REICHS
Mortal Remains
publication: 12/05/2011
price: 7.99
size: B format
pages: 384
ISBN: 9780099492399
The thirteenth Temperance Brennan thriller from international bestselling
author, and world-class forensic anthropologist Kathy Reichs
When Tempe is called to the scene of an autoerotic death, she has little idea
of the tangled chain of events that will follow. Because the man whose body
she is examining apparently died in a helicopter crash in Vietnam forty
years before. So who is buried in the soldier’s grave?
Tempe’s investigations take her to Honolulu where she is caught up not
only in the mystery of the unidentified body in the soldier’s grave, but
also dragged into investigating who, or what, killed the young men whose
body parts have floated up onto a popular Hawaiian beach. And as Tempe
gradually unravels the tangled threads of the mystery, it becomes clear that
there are some who would rather the past stays dead and buried. And when
Tempe proves difficult to frighten, they turn their attention to the person
who means more to her than anyone else in the world.
Kathy Reichs is forensic anthropologist for the Offices of the Chief
Medical Examiner, State of North Carolina, and for the Laboratorie de
Sciences Judiciaires et de M-decine L-gale for the province of Quebec.
A professor of anthropology at the University of North Carolina at
Charlotte, she divides her time between Charlotte and Montreal and is
a frequent expert witness in criminal trials.