Titmuss Regained - paperback - John Mortimer

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 Item Condition: Used; Very Good Beautifully written, witty and often very, very funny" Spectator Leslie Titmuss, the oily and self-seeking anti-hero of Paradise Postponed, has ri sen to become Secretary of State at the Ministry of Housing, Ecological Affairs and Planning and is busily pursuing the beautiful Jenny Sidonia, widow of a left-wing Oxford academic. But market forces, in the shape of a huge development, are encroaching on rural Rapstone Valley, the Secretary of State's own back garden'. The question is, should the Rt Hon. Leslie Titmuss support or withstand these cataclysmic changes? "One of the most accomnplished exponents of light fiction since P G. Wodehouse GQ magazine "Richly entertaining ... he presents a story with a gritty and immensely satisfying plot which is mercilessly funny in its observations on the way we live now Sunday Times A writer with a Dickensian gift for character and rich, robust humour var aPageStart = (new Date()).getTime();var ue_t0=ue_t0||+new Date();window.ue_ihb = (window.ue_ihb || window.ueinit || 0) + 1;if (window.ue_ihb === 1) {var ue_csm = window, ue_hob = +new Date();(function(d){var e=d.ue=d.ue||{},f=Date.now||function(){return+new Date};e.d=function(b){return f()-(b?0:d.ue_t0)};e.stub=function(b,a){if(!b[a]){var c=[];b[a]=function(){c.push([c.slice.call(arguments),e.d(),d.ue_id])};b[a].replay=function(b){for(var a;a=c.shift();)b(a[0],a[1],a[2])};b[a].isStub=1}};e.exec=function(b,a){return function(){try{return b.apply(this,arguments)}catch(c){ueLogError(c,{attribution:a||"undefined",logLevel:"WARN"})}}}})(ue_csm); var ue_err_chan = 'jserr-rw';(function(d,e){function h(f,b){if(!(a.ec>a.mxe)&&f){a.ter.push(f);b=b||{};var c=f.logLevel||b.logLevel;c&&c!==k&&c!==m&&c!==n&&c!==p||a.ec++;c&&c!=k||a.ecf++;b.pageURL=""+(e.location?e.location.href:"");b.logLevel=c;b.attribution=f.attribution||b.attribution;a.erl.push({ex:f,info:b})}}function l(a,b,c,e,g){d.ueLogError({m:a,f:b,l:c,c:""+e,err:g,fromOnError:1,args:arguments},g?{attribution:g.attribution,logLevel:g.logLevel}:void 0);return!1}var k="FATAL",m="ERROR",n="WARN",p="DOWNGRADED",a={ec:0,ecf:0,pec:0,ts:0,erl:[],ter:[],mxe:50,startTimer:function(){a.ts++;setInterval(function(){d.ue&&a.pec"" Show more