He completed his National Service in the Royal Navy in the late 1950s, reaching the rank of Sub-Lieutenant. The sender of these letters – a cantankerous crusader against pornography and modernity, and for hanging and Mrs. a b c "William Donaldson – Womanising satirist and novelist who squandered several fortunes on wild living".

Not only have so many of the people approached here faded from the memory that one can't quite remember why they were laughable, but some of the attitudes verge on bullying and prejudice in a way that's now well beyond the bounds of acceptability by today's mores. Root first came to my attention more years ago than I care to admit when I was in Denmark and saw the televised version of Root into Europe. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. I love this book and his laugh out style at trying to rankle celebrities and people in the public eye.By using the Web site, you confirm that you have read, understood, and agreed to be bound by the Terms and Conditions. Together, they provide a powerful impression of what life must have been like in late-Seventies Britain for a retired trader in wet fish, seeing his country overrun by lesbians, lefties and other losers. Jean Rook's reply "I am certainly not a thinking man's Anna Raeburn, so you must solve your own problems. If further recommendation be needed, then surely there is none finer than Glenda Slagg/Linda Lee Potter: "About as funny as pushing somebody fully clothed into a swimming pool. M Godding Books Ltd is an internet book business running from Wiltshire and sending books all over the world every working day.

Root wrote the BBC – I think Monty Python had his number, the Queen, Prince Charles, various publishing houses. Published in 1980, what would Henry Root of the wet fish emporium make of the A to Z listers of today. The letters aren’t really dated, with the exception of certain BBC television stars and the one to the South African Ambassador. Donaldson's biographical survey of roguish Britons through the ages, Brewer's Rogues, Villains and Eccentrics (2002), has been described as "a breathtaking triumph of misdirected scholarship". He established himself as a central player in the British satire boom of the early 1960s, as co-producer, with Donald Albery, of Beyond the Fringe (1960), and of dramatisations of J.You Cannot Live as I Have Lived and Not End Up Like This: The Thoroughly Disgraceful Life and Times of Willie Donaldson. Back in 1979, people with too much time on their hands could send actual letters to leading politicians, judges and other luminaries of light entertainment, and expect a reply. When he hits a target full on, or when the target responds with good grace or a sense of humour, it's hilarious, however. This time around Root has written an appalling soap opera about the decline of moral standards in modern Britain and put together a new volume crammed with letters to famous actors, directors and other worthies up and down the land. com, who sent a letter to all US senators, posing as a child and asking them for their favourite joke.