Pistache

First edition. Sm. 8vo. Pp. [viii], 104. Brown paper covered boards with red vignette to front and lettered in red to spine; red endpapers. B/w line drawings.

Signed to title page by Author.

Pistache (pis-tash): a friendly spoof or parody of another's work. [Deriv. uncertain. Possibly a cross between pastiche and p**stake.] From Thomas Hardy's football report to Dan Brown's visit to the cash dispenser, the work of the great and the not-so-great is here sent up with little hope of coming down. Most of these pieces began their life on BBC Radio Four's The Write Stuff, but have been retooled for the printed page. Others, such as Martin Amis's first day at Hogwarts, have been written specially for this collection. "Unforgivably witty." –Oliver Pritchett, Sunday Telegraph