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Speak for England (Hardcover)

by James Hawes (Author)
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  • Hardcover: 338 pages
  • Publisher: Jonathan Cape Ltd; illustrated edition edition (6 Jan 2005)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0224073028
  • ISBN-13: 978-0224073028
  • Product Dimensions: 21.6 x 13.6 x 3.6 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 570,142 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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Independent on Sunday, January 9, 2005

'James Hawes has a growing reputation, richly deserved, for sharp and snappy satires... deliciously entertaining and uncomfortable'


Guardian, January 8, 2005

'An assured, clever, raffishly inventive work'
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5.0 out of 5 stars James Hawes..., 2 April 2007
By A. Miles (Al Khor, Qatar) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Speak for England (Paperback)
Once again the guy grasps the zeitgeist and does something new and unexpected with it - for my money the best and most underrated popular novelist we have. A great book which subtly contrasts the false images of 'the good old days' with the equally pernicious lies about how great life is now. As in 'White Merc' etc, Hawes remains concerned about the gap between the shiny lives the media constantly present as the norm and the stressed-out relative failures we all feel ourselves to be. Very talented, insightful writer, shamefully ignored IMHO.
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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars A funny parody for England, 7 Mar 2006
By R. Percival - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Speak for England (Paperback)
Mid life crisis-riven divorced father Marley goes on desparate last throw jungle reality TV show, survives slaughter of crew and contestants to be rescued by a tribe descended from British public school survivors of a 1950s plane crash, who return to our addled more-or-less present, bringing with them a promise of simplicity, truth and a self-confident Englishness. This very funny novel works by welding Marley's yearnings for lost promises and unmet expectations with the parallel yearnings of a clapped-out social order. The Headmaster, a wonderfully realised villain/hero, initially satisfies both - but can we really stop being knowing and critical? And doesn't it all end up rather horrible if we try? Underpinned by a sort of Waugh-ish sensibility, this novel fizzes and hisses with ideas, with wonderful riffs of polemical rhetoric. And for a really funny set-piece, the scene where Marley explains to the public school boys and staff what has happened since 1957 beats just about everything written by an Englishman since Gussie Fink-Nottle gave the prizes at Market Snodbury Grammar School.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Side-splitting, 4 Jun 2006
By kehs (Hertfordshire, England) - See all my reviews
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Hilarious parody of an English teacher who takes part in a depraved reality tv show. He ends up stumbling across a tribe of forgotten plane crash survivors from the 1950s. It really is an hilarious book that had me laughing out loud just reading the blurb.
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3.0 out of 5 stars Good start
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4.0 out of 5 stars A spiffing story
So what would happen if we took a groups of 1950s public school educated men and women, brought up on a diet of Eagle comics and scouting manuals, empire and reds under the beds,... Read more
Published on 9 May 2006 by Kevin Roche

4.0 out of 5 stars A Roaring and Ripping Yarn.
I had my doubts that Hawes could attempt to spin a tale that, in some ways, tended towards an imaginary 'golden age' of 1950's English culture. Read more
Published on 7 Nov 2005 by A. Reynolds

4.0 out of 5 stars Speak for England
"Speak for England" has been my first exposure to the work of James Hawes.

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