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 Hislop)'Hilarious'
(Sunday Telegraph)(David Baddiel)
'Rare, clever, creative ... a maverick, pushing boundaries with outrageous jokes'
(Guardian)'The first chapter deserves to be anthologised alongside the funniest passages of cricket writing in the game's rich literary history, and what follows is crammed with sharp observation, comic and cruel characterisation and a great many very good jokes...It is a gloriously funny and life-affirming book, and if you know anyone who plays cricket and can read you should buy it for them' - Andrew Baker
(Daily Telegraph 2006-04-13)'Surely the funniest book ever written about the English addiction to cricket...a beautiful tale of classic British humour, self-deprecation, great courage and one of the best accounts ever of the obsessive appeal of our summer game to those whose lives revolve around it' - Tom Rosenthal
(Daily Mail 2006-04-14)'Engaging and full of humour, though it ends with an abrupt shift in tone when Thompson discovers that he has inoperable lung cancer' - Ludovic Hunter-Tilney
(FT magazine 2006-04-15)'As funny as you would expect from the (sadly deceased) writer of Have I Got News For You'
(Daily Express 2006-04-14)'A hilarious, eccentically English memoir.'
(Sainsbury's Magazine 2006-05-01)'In the whirl of hangovers, jetlag, sleeplessness and general unreliability, humour was the saviour.'
(The Week 2006-04-22)'Delicious...This book is the perfect tribute to his greatest enthusiasm: a delivery which spins delicately past the straight bat of our expectations' - Pete Clark
(Evening Standard 2006-04-10)'Funny and inspiring...Thompson writes with a novelist's sympathy about a wonderfully mixed bunch of characters' - Hugh Massingberd
(Literary Review 2006-04-10)(Wanderlust (Book of the Month) 2006-04-10)
'An eccentic, funny and very English story'
(Traveller 2006-04-10)(Waterstone's Books Quarterly 2006-04-10)
(The Bookseller 2006-04-10)
'The writing is crisper than a Gower cover drive and as witty as any of the Tales from the Long Room.'
(Wisden Cricketer 2006-06-01)'[Thompson] writes with wit, verve, and a genuine love of the use of language shines through... superb observational comedy writing.'
(AND Magazine 2006-05-01)"Rarely has there been a funnier cricket book"
(Yorkshire Evening Post 2006-04-29)'This will make you laugh out loud as you enjoy the "best of British", while lamenting the passing of this coming genius.'
(The Resident 2006-05-01)'[Thompson] excels as a travel writer.'
(South China Morning Post, Alex Price 2006-06-11)'This will make you laugh out loud while lamenting the passing of this comic genius.'
(Rise, Robert Gwyn Palmer 2006-05-01)'Thompson's prose is vividly conversational... very funny.'
(Guardian: Tim de Lisle 2006-06-17)'Very funny it is too . . .he fills his warm-hearted book with a satisfying selection of tales'
(Andrew Holgate, Sunday Times 2006-05-14)'A highly entertaining account of one man's sporting obsession'
(Father's Quarterly 2006-05-31)'This is a beautiful tale of classic British humour, self-deprecation, great courage and one of the best accounts ever of the obsessive appeal of our summer game to those whose lives revolve around it'
(Daily Mail 2006-04-01)'Even people who despise cricket will adore Penguins Stopped Play.'
(Times 2006-07-01)'Thompson... maintains a witty narrative... Despite his cynical eye, Thompson is never afraid to show his love of the game'
(Observer / Sports Monthly 2006-07-01)(Celia Brayfield, The Times 2006-07-01)
'A very funny, peculiarly British travel book'
(Markus Berkman, Daily Mail 2006-07-01)