Sharon and Tracy and the Rest

This selection of Keith Waterhouse's twice-weekly column, which started in the "Daily Mirror" but moved to "The Daily Mail", has six times won him national press awards, including the British Press Awards Columnist of the Year 1990. The characters in his column include Sharon and Tracy, the councillors of Clogthorpe and British Rail's brother-in-law Arnold, as well as the Association for the Annihilation of the Aberrant Apostrophe. Other books by Keith Waterhouse include "Billy Liar", "Our Song", "The Theory and Practice of Travel", "Bimbo" and "Unsweet Charity".