Tag Archives | humour

“Lux the Poet” by Martin Millar

12 January 2011 · Reading · Comments { 1 }

I thought I would like this book more than I did. It’s a comedy set in the Brixton Riots of the early 1980s, set around the adventures of a narcissistic poet called Lux. In a wonderfully creative mix of storylines, a whole array of other characters run around in Brixton in the chaos of the [...]

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"Three Stories" by Alan Bennett

5 December 2008 · Reading · Comments { 0 }

All three of these stories have a deeply satirical flavour, with dry, mostly successful humour and pointed observations on the various absurdities and hypocrisies we live by. “The Laying on of Hands” describes a memorial service for a masseur to the rich and famous, at which everyone (including the priest) is secretly worrying about whether [...]

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