Article: ARTS: By the book; THE SILLYSEASON by Bernard Shrimsley, published in hard back by Robson Books,priced pounds 16.99. Available now.(Features)

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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