This One's on Me
Will be published approx. on 30. November 2017
Book
Paperback/Softback
320 pages
978-1-911440-50-5 (ISBN)
Description
On the run, ex-fighter pilot Bart Bandy finds his life starting to unravel.
Flying to Britain in his self-designed amphibious aircraft, Bart makes a forced landing in Reykjavik, is rescued by a beautiful but bossy blonde who takes a shine to him, and finally sinks his precious plane in the drink while saving the life of a novice pilot who has come down in the North Sea.
The boy turns out to be the son of a fabulously rich Indian maharajah, whose shopping list features a complete airforce full of pilots and planes. As Bart can barely scrape together fourpence ha'penny for a pint of beer these days, it looks like his luck has turned . . .
With the blackest of black comedy and seat-of-the pants escapades, Donald Jack's series about a young pilot is uniquely funny and compelling.
Flying to Britain in his self-designed amphibious aircraft, Bart makes a forced landing in Reykjavik, is rescued by a beautiful but bossy blonde who takes a shine to him, and finally sinks his precious plane in the drink while saving the life of a novice pilot who has come down in the North Sea.
The boy turns out to be the son of a fabulously rich Indian maharajah, whose shopping list features a complete airforce full of pilots and planes. As Bart can barely scrape together fourpence ha'penny for a pint of beer these days, it looks like his luck has turned . . .
With the blackest of black comedy and seat-of-the pants escapades, Donald Jack's series about a young pilot is uniquely funny and compelling.
Reviews / Votes
Praise for The Bandy Papers Series'I enjoyed every word... terrifically funny' P.G. Wodehouse 'The Bandy Papers deserve to be read in private where insane giggling can go unnoticed' Jack Granatstein 'Jack does more than play it for laughs . . . The mingling of humor and horror is like a clown tap-dancing on a coffin, but Jack is skillful enough to get away with it' Time Magazine 'Funny. Very. Donald Jack has as light a touch with this fragile art as his hero has on throttle of a Sopwith Camel. Excessive corn is avoided in favour of wit and a delight in life' New York Times 'Bartholomew Bandy is the most remarkable hero (or anti-hero) since Harold Lloyd impersonated the Freshman' Chicago Tribune 'To know Bandy is to love him . . . you tend to gallop through and come hurtling out at the end panting for more' The Sunday Sun 'For those to whom Bandy is a newcomer, what a treat is in store' Toronto Star
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Duckworth Books
Dimensions
Height: 198 mm
Width: 129 mm
ISBN-13
978-1-911440-50-5 (9781911440505)
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Person
Donald Lamont Jack (1924-2003) was born in Radcliffe, England. He attended Marr College and later served in the Royal Air Force as an aircraftsman. After de-mobbing, he participated in amateur dramatics with The Ellis Players, and worked for several years in Britain before emigrating to Canada in 1951. In 1962 he published his first novel, Three Cheers for Me, about fictional Canadian First World War air-ace Bartholomew Wolfe Bandy. The book won the Leacock Medal for Humour in 1963. His second book, That's Me in the Middle, won another Leacock Medal in 1974. He received a third award in 1980 for Me Bandy, You Cissie.