Beachcomber: The Works of J.B. Morton

Humor & Entertainment

Richard Ingrams

J.B. Morton

Humor

Bloomsbury Publishing Plc.

A selection by Michael Frayn of some of the funniest writings of J.B. Morton, writer of "The Daily Express" "Beachcomber" column for over 40 years. The most memorable exploits of such characters as Dr Strabismus of Utrecht and Mr Justice Cocklecarrot are recounted.

The Best of Beachcomber

Mandarin

A collection of material from J.B. Morton's legendary "Daily Express" column, taken from the years 1958 to 1975. This volume contains a mix of Beachcomber's best-loved characters, with poems, puns, parodies, travel notes, printers' errors, bizarre news, satire, and wild flights of lunatic prophecy.

Cram Me With Eels

BEACHCOMBER . THE WORKS OF JB MORTON [Paperback] [Jan 01, 1977] Morton, J B ...

Beachcomber . The works of JB Morton

Futura

“As funny as Wodehouse, if not funnier.”—The Oldie“The greatest comic fertility of any Englishman.”—Evelyn WaughOswald Hattersley Blettisloe Thake, the ultimate upper-class English fool, lurches haplessly from calamity to calamity in 1930s Europe and America, describing everything (with delightful incomprehension) in his letters home to England. The Adventures of Mr Thake is a humor classic.

The Adventures of Mr Thake

Old Street Publishing