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David Nobbs Books In Order

Reginald Perrin Books In Order

  1. Death of Reginald Perrin (1975)
  2. The Return of Reginald Perrin (1977)
  3. The Better World of Reginald Perrin (1978)
  4. The Legacy of Reginald Perrin (1995)

Pratt Books In Order

  1. Second from Last in the Sack Race (1983)
  2. Pratt of the Argus (1988)
  3. The Cucumber Man (1994)
  4. Pratt a Manger (2006)

Bit of a Do Books In Order

  1. A Bit of a Do (1986)
  2. Fair Do’s (1990)

Novels

  1. The Itinerant Lodger (1965)
  2. Ostrich Country (1968)
  3. A Piece of the Sky is Missing (1969)
  4. Going Gently (2000)
  5. Sex and Other Changes (2004)
  6. Cupid’s Dart (2007)
  7. Obstacles to Young Love (2010)
  8. It Had to Be You (2011)
  9. The Fall and Rise of Gordon Coppinger (2012)
  10. The Second Life of Sally Mottram (2014)

Collections

  1. The Maltby Collection (2008)

Non fiction

  1. I Didn’t Get Where I Am Today (2003)

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David Nobbs Books Overview

Death of Reginald Perrin

Reginald is sick to death with selling exotic ices at Sunshine Desserts. He’s fed up with his boss who delights in making his life hell. And he’s had enough of his eager young assistants who think everything is super. So when he decides to battle against the unacceptable face of consumerism, his quest for a new life leads him to take increasingly eccentric measures. Available in November.

The Legacy of Reginald Perrin

Reginald Perrin is dead, killed in an accident as freakish as his life. Thanks to the success of his company Grot, he has bequeathed vast sums of money to all his family and associates, on the condition that each beneficiary does something totally and utterly absurd.

Pratt a Manger

A deliciously entertaining novel about Henry Pratt who finds fame and misfortune as a celebrity chef with his own TV series, Hooray, it’s Henry. Henry is blissfully married to Hilary, but fame means women, and he is sorely tempted. Will success spoil Henry Ezra Pratt The People s Chef?

A Bit of a Do

Now televised, this is a humorous look at life in a dull northern town taking a compassionate but funny look at marriage, provincial business and the British class system. By the author of ‘Pratt of the Argus’, ‘Second From Last in the Sack Race’, and the Reginald Perrin series of books.

Going Gently

Kate Thomas was beautiful, intelligent, witty, passionate and sexy. Now, at 99, she is trapped in a hospital ward of sad, mad and bad old women. She escapes by playing to herself the video of her life. What a life it has been. Her six marriages have ended in suicide, a husband’s adultery, another husband’s deportation as a dangerous alien, a union dispute, a murder, and a natural death. But Kate’s journey through the twentieth century is also a search for the truth about life, death, and which of her three sons murdered her fifth husband. This is a novel rich in memorable characters, from Kate’s narrow but loving Welsh family to the wild members of an artists’ colony in Cornwall; from Midland piston manufacturers to an investigative journalist whose own life cannot bear investigation.

Sex and Other Changes

Will the marriage survive if both partners change their sex? Will Nick become Nicola? Will Alison become Alan? And what effect will it have on their teenage children? A funny, touching and compassionate look at what being a man or a woman really means.

Cupid’s Dart

The hilarious new novel from the creator of Reginald Perrin begins with a not so brief encounter on a train, between 58 year old philosophy lecturer Alan, and Ange a twenty something darts groupie. Alan learns to live for the moment, and Ange to appreciate the finer things in life.

Obstacles to Young Love

From one of the greatest comedic writers of a generation comes a story of love, faith and taxidermy. ‘Three mighty obstacles threaten the burgeoning love of childhood sweethearts Timothy Pickering and Naomi Walls. They are Steven Venables, a dead curlew and God.’ 1978: Two lovers perch precariously on the cusp of adulthood. Timothy’s life ambition is to take on his father’s taxidermy business; while Naomi dreams of a career on stage. Across the decades their lives continue to interweave, and occasionally cross bound by the pull of intoxicating first love. But will their destinies ultimately unite them? Nobbs moves his exceptional comic talent to a new found depth. Memorable and moving, a tale of love won and love lost. You will never look at the art of taxidermy in the same way again.

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