pistache (pistash) a friendly spoof or parody of anothers work. [Deriv uncertain. Possibly a cross between pastiche and pstake.] From Thomas Hardys football report to Dan Browns visit to the cash dispenser, the work of the great and the notsogreat is here sent up with little hope of coming down. Most of these pieces began their life on Radio Fours The Write Stuff, but have been retooled for the printed page. Others, such as Martin Amiss first day at Hogwarts, have been written specially for this collection. Philip Larkins Lines in Celebration of the Queen Mothers 115th Birthday, first banned, then cut by the BBC, appears in its entirety for the first time. This is not a book for the fainthearted or the downstairs lavatory. It is a book for the bedside table of someone you cannot live without.

Binding: Paperback;112 pages; Publisher: TBS-Penguin Random House Wholesale; Classification: FY; Weight: 206 g; Dimensions: 197 x 133 x 9

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