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Article: ARTS: By the book; THE SILLYSEASON by Bernard Shrimsley, published in hard back by Robson Books,priced pounds 16.99. Available now.(Features)
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- Daily Post (Liverpool, England)
- Article date:
- March 26, 2004
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Byline: EMYR WILLIAMS
THOSE who have inhabited the madcap world of tabloid newspapers will rejoice in this outrageously funny,larger-than-life, though uncomfortably accurate satire belting at full tilt along the fast and bumpy lane of Fleet Street.
Some of what goes on in this uproarious book may appear to the uninitiated to be the outpourings of a wild and uncontrollable imagination. In fact there is an unbroken thread of truth from the first page to the last.
Jack Stack is just the sort of frantic tabloid newspaper editor you would expect. Hiring and firing, roaring through thenewsroom, shouting orders, working up stories, worrying about the ...
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Article: Book reviews.(Sport)
Evening Chronicle (Newcastle, England);
March 26, 2004 ;
654 words
...Byline: By Lindesay Irvine The silly season by Bernard Shrimsley, is published in hardback by Robson Books, priced ... more qualified to write this magnificent book than Bernard Shrimsley, who has been editor of the Sun, the News of the ...
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