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The Bible According to Spike Milligan

  • Imprint: Penguin

  • ISBN: 9780241978566

  • Length: 192  Pages

  • Dimensions: 198mm x 12mm x 129mm

  • Weight: 138g

  • RRP: £8.99

The Bible According to Spike Milligan

The Old Testament: but more mad, more merry, more... Milligan!

"And God said, Let there be light; and there was light, but Eastern Electricity Board said He would have to wait until Thursday to be connected."

There have been many interpretations of the Old Testament over the centuries but never one quite like this. Spike Milligan has rewritten, in his own inimitable style, many of the best-known stories of the Old Testament, featuring characters like King "my brain hurts" Solomon, the great oaf of a giant Goliath and the lesser-known crossword clue, Hushai the Archite.

Believers and non-believers alike will enjoy this hilarious re-working, where the jokes, jests and jibes tumble over each other from Chapter One, Verse One until kingdom come.

  • Imprint: Penguin

  • ISBN: 9780241978566

  • Length: 192  Pages

  • Dimensions: 198mm x 12mm x 129mm

  • Weight: 138g

  • RRP: £8.99

Reviews

  • That absolutely glorious way of looking at things differently. A great man

    Stephen Fry

  • A totally original comedy writer

    Michael Palin

  • Close in stature to Lewis Carroll and Edward Lear in his command of the profound art of nonsense

    Guardian

  • Manifestly a genius, a comic surrealist genius and had no equal

    Terry Wogan

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About the Author

Spike Milligan

A legendary and iconic figure, Spike Milligan was born at Ahmednagar in India in 1918. He received his first education in a tent in the Hyderabad Sindh desert and graduated from there, through a series of Roman Catholic schools in India and England, to the Lewisham Polytechnic. He then plunged into the world of Show Business, seduced by his first stage appearance, at the age of eight, in the nativity play of his Poona convent school. He began his career as a band musician, but became famous as a humorous scriptwriter and actor in both films and broadcasting. Over the course of his astonishing career, he wrote over eighty books of fiction, memoir, poetry, plays, cartoons and children's stories. He was the creator, principal writer and performer of the infamous Goon Show, and went on to become one of the greatest and most influential comedians of the twentieth century. Spike received an honorary CBE in 1992 and Knighthood in 2000. He died in 2002.

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