Written by Peter Tinniswood


Tales from the Long Room - Peter Tinniswood
Peter Tinniswood's creation, The Brigadier, is at his finest here, in his original outing. Dotty, bombastic, eccentric, a bit rude - the Brigadier is all of these and
so much more. The book follows the Brigadier recounting his past memories of "the summer game", and frequently mistaking well known cricketers for other famous people.
Comments such as "Majid Khan, son of Sammy" will either paralyse you with laughter, or leave you stone cold. I am firmly in the first camp and definitely recommend this
book to anyone who loves cricket and who loves a really silly off the wall laugh. Most of the other Peter Tinniswood "Brigadier" books ("More Tales from the Long Room",
"Tales of Witney Scrotum", "Brigadier's Brief Lives" etc.) are all good in places, but none of them can hold a candle to this opener.


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Tinniswood's character "the Brigadier", with his appalling political incorrectness, dodgy personal tastes and one-track mind (that track being cricket), will appeal to
a particular kind of reader. If you already know and love Tinniswood, you'll know what to expect; here the Brigadier's rambling monologues take us on another jeu d'esprit
with the heavy roller firmly in tow.