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To Hell in a Handcart (Paperback)

by Richard Littlejohn (Author)
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  • Paperback: 425 pages
  • Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Ltd (4 Jun 2001)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0007106130
  • ISBN-13: 978-0007106134
  • Product Dimensions: 17.3 x 11.2 x 3.3 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (18 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 211,430 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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Richard Littlejohn exposes the madness of modern Britain in this thrill-packed roller coaster of a novel, bursting with all the humour and irreverence that have made him Britain's No 1 newspaper columnist.

Mickey French is just an ordinary bloke, an ex-cop struggling to look after his family as self-righteous do-gooders and bungling bureaucrats bring the country to its knees. But Mickey's life is turned upside sown when he is attacked in his own home and forced to defend himself. His arrest for murder is front-page news, and soon the whole nation is watching as he battles for justice, lost in a maze of dodgy lawyers, politically correct police officers, bogus asylum seekers, self-publicising politicians, shameless journalists and rabble-rousing shock-jocks.

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22 of 27 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars So witty, 22 Feb 2003
By R. J. Devonshire (Sandhurst UK) - See all my reviews
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Richard Littlejohnson has to be one of the greatest minds of our generation. The breadth of his knowledge of UK politics is immense. His devastatingly witty and repetitious use of comic stereotypes has catapulted him to his rightful place as Islington's favourite comedian.

There are many folk who have knocked Littlejohnson, saying there is no place for his pro-gay, bleeding-heart liberal opinions in the journal of truth that is the Daily Mail. Some would say he's a friend of Dorothy. Others would say he's just an overpaid hack, who will write any old nonsense to make a quick buck.

I say Littlejohnson's knockers are all wrong.

Buy this book. Alternatively, smash yourself over the head with a brick. The effect is quite similar.


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29 of 43 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars reactionary drivel, 13 Jun 2001
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It's often said of Richard Littlejohn that he speaks for the silent majority in Britain. Unfortunately, rather like the Conservative Party whose ideas are so close to his own, he actually only speaks for a loud, paranoid minority. This offensive (and offensively poorly written) tome is full of the knee-jerk rightwing politics we continually hear from the Daily Mail, the Sun and the Conservative Pary. It seems that Richard Littlejohn lives in an island very much like Britain, but without the tolerance, respect for others and liberalism that make the British people (which includes people with brown skin, gay people and even - gasp!- people who don't think the Sun is the source of all wisdom) so great. Those of us who live in the real Britain know that this rambling, incoherent cynical attempt at a novel is just that - fiction. That's why the Tories were so resoundingly rejected on June 7th.
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29 of 49 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars A strangely toothless novel from Littlejohn., 4 Jul 2001
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For all the praise and condemnation heaped on this novel, it really has nothing much to say. The attacks on immigration, crime and political correctness are made over and over without giving any real insight into these issues, or offering anything new. The characters are cartoon stereotypes, and the dialogue is generally poor. Littlejohn cannot write a simile to save his life either. On the plus side, his direct and blunt style does have a certain charm.

When the book came out Littlejohn said how glad he was that the left had reacted with horror to it. But did they? As a guardian reading lefty I do not find this book offensive as I cannot take it seriously. No one should. Maybe that's the point.

...The main character is married to the daughter of a Greek immigrant (lest we should think him racist), and Littlejohn is often careful to offer both sides of the story (even if it's clear where his sympathies ultimately lie). The scene in which a repeat young offender is up before the law is an obvious example of Littlejohn's ability to show 'both sides' of the argument.

This book does not satirise or savage Blair's Britain, but does give a snapshot of a peculiarly British trait of right-wing paranoia. Littlejohn clearly sees himself as something of a rebel, taking on the liberal elite...

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5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent- very funny and sharply written
This is a funny, fast-moving, sharply-written story that is sadly all to believable in today's Britain. Read more
Published 1 month ago by Mr. M. J. Stead

5.0 out of 5 stars Littlejohn should be Prime Minister.
I enjoy reading everything Littlejohn puts to paper. Its about time someone had the courage to speak out against all that this rotten Left-Wing Liberal/Labour Goverment have... Read more
Published 2 months ago by SAM TORRENS

5.0 out of 5 stars Warning! This book may offend...
...but only if you are the kind of humourless, politically correct NuLab supporter who sits on diversity committees, trying to find yet more aspects of British heritage and... Read more
Published 4 months ago by N. Shepherd

5.0 out of 5 stars Littlejohns thoughts, OUR FUTURE?
A frighteningly funny book, as does life in reality, it shows just how damaged our society is becoming by allowing ultra Liberal views that everybody else is worse off than... Read more
Published on 9 Jul 2006 by Stanley Triumph

5.0 out of 5 stars A different perspective
Richard Littlejohn gives a different perspective here and produces a book which is one the eye for the PC brigade and little Napoleons in local councils and government who try to... Read more
Published on 13 Aug 2005 by David

1.0 out of 5 stars Distasteful
I'm not a serious political person, I'm not really a front line marcher but reading this book made me unhappy about some of the narrow-minded opinions that Richard Littlejohn... Read more
Published on 5 Feb 2004 by Mr. Pr Merrett

5.0 out of 5 stars Superb Read
The best Novel I have ever read. Littlejohn lives up to his brilliant reputation by delivering a rollercoater ride of a book with so many twists and turns. Read more
Published on 29 Mar 2003 by Russell Cox

4.0 out of 5 stars Funny, smart Brilliant
Richard LittleJohn is contraversal, no doubt about it but reading "To hell in a handcart" one has to question, is there anything in the book that isn`t true? Read more
Published on 20 Oct 2002 by Kimmy Haynes

5.0 out of 5 stars Funny and frightening
I think the minority liberal opinion on this book shows that Littlejohn got it exactly right. Of COURSE the book is over the top - it's set a (very! Read more
Published on 1 Aug 2001 by Fergus W. Mason

5.0 out of 5 stars A very fine read indeed.
Being a big fan of Richard Littlejohns for quite a while i suppose i knew i would like this book and in all honesty i was,nt disapointed. Read more
Published on 28 Jun 2001

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