The Nine Tailors by Dorothy L. Sayers

The Blurb On The Back:

When his sexton finds a corpse in the wrong grave, the rector of Fenchurch St Paul asks Lord Peter Wimsey to find out who the dead man was and how he came to be there.

The lore of bell-ringing and a brilliantly-evoked village in the remote fens of East Anglia are the unforgettable background to a story of an old unsolved crime and its violent unravelling twenty years later.

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The Verdict:

Sayers has carefully constructed a mystery story around bell-ringing and it would have been useful for a guide to the subject to be included in the book so that those unfamiliar with the subject could get the maximum benefit from the text. That said, the mystery elements are well crafted and the characters of Wimsey and Bunter remain a delight.

Dawn Of The Dumb by Charlie Brooker

The Blurb On The Back:

”I don’t get people. What’s their appeal, precisely? They waddle around with their haircuts on, cluttering the pavement like gormless, farting skittles. They’re awful.

Polite, pensive, mature, reserved ... Charlie Brooker is none of these things and less. Picking up where his hilarious Screen Burn left off, Dawn of the Dumb collects the best of Brooker’s recent TV writing, together with uproarious spleen-venting diatribes on a range of non-televisual subjects – tackling everything from David Cameron to human hair.

Rude, unhinged, outrageous, and above all funny, Dawn of the Dumb is essential reading for anyone with a brain and a spinal cord. And hands for turning the pages.

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The Verdict:

Bleak, misanthropic and very, very funny, this is a great introduction to Charlie Brooker’s style of writing and well worth a look. Unless your a George W Bush fan, in which case you’ll probably want to give it a miss.