The Silence of the Shaggy Rug
Published on 16. December 2021
210 pages
978-1-912969-34-0 (ISBN)
Description
In the long tradition of the anti-hero in English literature, award-winning author Daniel Jacob has created a whole bunch of them - each able to stand shoulder to shoulder with a Flashman or anyone from the pages of a Waugh novel. With the touch of a Tom Sharpe for grand farce, the grotesque Crooke-Wells siblings trace their mean, mendacious and downright nasty steps through a series of plots and pitfalls in their attempt to accumulate unearned and entirely unmerited wealth. Standing like a beacon in this sea of iniquity is the mother, whose string of illicit love affairs seems positively honest by comparison. This is the story of an upper-crust English family which is part of a sub-group known as The Hereditary Rich. Beautifully written and splendidly wicked, The Silence of the Shaggy Rug is not for the faint-hearted or politically correct.
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Content
- Intro
- In the Bleak Midwinter
- Deeds Not Words
- A Shot in the Arm from a Maid
- Foot Note
- An Itchy Codpiece
- A Game in Bed
- Wir sind in der Scheiße
- Into Daddy's Hands
- Forever Chained
- Rodney Crooke-Wells MP
- Dear Book Worm
- The Lives and Loves of a Linseed Lancer
- Fare Thee Weel, Thou First and Fairest!
- For a Canter on a High Horse
- Kismet
- On the Up
- Beloved Bibliophile
- Sri Lanka
- Property Pedlar
- Dear Reader, the Last of the Brood
- The Game Hawkers Hood is Removed
- A Moggie on the Ceiling
- Something Came Up
- Don't Eat the Bacon
- A Commie in the Camp
- Dead for a Ducat, Dead
- For Whom the Bell Tinkled?
- Llamedos
- Buenos Aires
- The Truth in a Nutshell
- A Knight Races to the Rescue
- Ramiro's Destino
- Bloomsbury, London
