Waiting for Kate BushThis unusual hybrid of satirical comic novel and music biography has two heroes: an American fan and the object of his fixation, the wildly eccentric singer Kate Bush..A fictional account of one strange man's obsessive preoccupation with England's even stranger 'Pre-Raphaelite nymph with the Minnie Mouse soprano', this is a hugely entertaining satirical pop story.Full of bizarre characters and plot twists it also sheds unexpected light on what Kate Bush has been up to in the long wilderness years since the release of her last album. Hardback edition.
Wicked and Humorous Tales These are just a few of the amazing stories created by Hector Hugh Munro, a skilful short-story teller under pseudonym Saki, ex-journalist who turned to writing satirical tales.
Few writers have walked the line between farce and tragedy as nimbly as Evelyn Waugh, who employed the conventions of the comic novel to chip away at the already crumbling English class system. His 1934 novel, A Handful of Dust, is a sublime example of his bleak satirical style: a mordantly funny exposé of aristocratic decadence and ennui in England between the wars.
