Cram Me With Eels
The best of Beachcomber's unpublished humour
J.B. Morton
Edited by Mike Barfield
Beachcomber is back!
Cram me with Eels! is the first new collection of material from J.B. Morton's legendary Daily Express column to be published for over thirty years. Drawing on the best of the columns from the years 1958-1975, when Morton finally retired after over five decades of sustained comic brilliance, this is an essential volume for any fan of the man Michael Frayn described as "one of the great English humorists of the century".
Illustrated with elegant eerie drawings by Steven Appleby, as well as some of Beachcomber's own unique doodles, Cram me with Eeels! is an uproarious read in the tradition of English humour that inspired The Goons and Monty Python. "Beneath the earthy roughness of the tap-room lay a precisely informed insight and a comic inspiration as delicate as an anemone...Cram Me With Eels! is an admirably balanced selection by Mike Barfield of Beachcomber pieces that have not before been published in book form. Most of the old friends are here and on form" William Trevor (Spectator)
"Fanfare for the column man...When you have stopped laughing, Morton's nonsense may strike you as sanity of a high order." (Peter McKay, Evening Standard); "For the first time in three decades, a new collection of Morton's work has just been published. It's wonderful stuff." (Peter Tory, Daily Express)
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