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Just ask Daniel Skipton, the greatest—or, let us say, the most under-recognized—novelist of his generation. Skipton is only a few revisions away from finishing his masterpiece: a satire of literary London that will humiliate his enemies and make him as famous, and as rich, as he deserves. Yet, in the meantime, he is forced to scrape by in obscurity and self-imposed exile amid the deserted canals of Bruges, barely surviving on a regimen of blackmail, bullying, persistence, and native charm.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eOne afternoon at a local cafe, he encounters the acclaimed playwright Dorothy Merlin and her entourage—worldly tourists on the lookout for erotic adventure and in need of a local guide. Soon they are joined by an even juicier target, a Venetian count who dreams of singing on the English stage and who will spend anything to make his dream come true. Or so he leads Skipton to believe.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eToo long out of print in the U.S., Pamela Hansford Johnson's comic masterpiece \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Unspeakable Skipton\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e belongs on the shelf beside the best work of Nancy Mitford and Muriel Spark. As Michael Dirda writes in his foreword, it is “a dark chocolate treat, deliciously witty and bittersweet.”\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"McNally Editions","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50972718104834,"sku":"9781961341388","price":19.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/2228\/7429\/files\/unspeakableskipton.jpg?v=1793945169"},{"product_id":"office-politics","title":"Office Politics","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"a-expander-content a-expander-partial-collapse-content a-expander-content-expanded\" style=\"padding-bottom: 24px;\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"a-expander-content a-expander-partial-collapse-content a-expander-content-expanded\" style=\"padding-bottom: 24px;\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e“A masterpiece . . . One of the few genuinely comic novels since \u003cem\u003eLucky Jim\u003c\/em\u003e.” —Elaine Dundy\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e“If Joseph Heller, Henry James, Evelyn Waugh and Kingsley Amis collaborated on a scathing novel of cubicle mutiny, it might resemble Wilfrid Sheed’s delightful \u003cem\u003eOffice Politics\u003c\/em\u003e.” — Robert Allen Papinchak, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Times Literary Supplement\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eEver since college, George Wren has dreamed of working at \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Outsider\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, the prestigious weekly edited by his hero, the suave English expat Gilbert Twining. So when George sees a listing for a junior editor, he trades in his job at CBS for half the salary—and a ringside seat in the unexpectedly cutthroat arena of a small-circulation, highpow little magazine. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eTo George’s surprise and dismay, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Outsider\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is seething with malcontents and mutineers, at least according to Twining, who keeps cornering George for after-work martinis, pouring out his anxieties, professional and otherwise, while George’s wife, Matilda, and baby son wait for him back in Queens. Is Twining paranoid? Is he insane? Or are George’s new office-mates truly plotting an insurrection? And if so, what’s all of it got to do with George?\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e An indelible satire of 1960s intellectual New York, \u003cem\u003eOffice Politics\u003c\/em\u003e is also a celebration of that endangered species, the office, at its pettiest and most idealistic, as the proving ground where so much of grownup life takes place.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"McNally Editions","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50972740387074,"sku":"9781961341180","price":19.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/2228\/7429\/files\/officepolitics.jpg?v=1793962958"},{"product_id":"feast","title":"The Feast","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"a-expander-content a-expander-partial-collapse-content a-expander-content-expanded\" style=\"padding-bottom: 24px;\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"a-expander-content a-expander-partial-collapse-content a-expander-content-expanded\" style=\"padding-bottom: 24px;\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e“The perfect seaside holiday read. We’re in Cornwall in 1947, where a landslide has buried a hotel, fatally crushing guests in the rubble . . . The nail-biting tension to discover who actually survived the tragedy will keep you on the very edge of your deckchair.” — Val Hennessy, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Daily Mail\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eAn ingenious, upstairs-downstairs tragicomedy that unfolds like a thriller, set at a doomed seaside resort in Postwar England.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eSummer, 1947. A bizarre catastrophe rocks a seaside village in Cornwall when a cliff tumbles down on the Pendizack Manor Hotel. The hotel is obliterated, and seven guests are killed in the disaster. Everyone else makes a narrow escape. As the survivors tell their stories, the events of the previous week are revealed, and a parade of sins exposed. 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