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Reads on the Northern Line |
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Mark
Burrowcliffe |
| Infidelity for
First-Time Fathers |
The
party invites that used to read '8 till police raid' now read 'Ben
is 1 please leave quietly before afternoon nap'. Dag wants a family
too but then this wish comes true, twice; in the same week. |
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Dag
meets Cat in the Cafe in the Crypt |
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St Martin-in-the-Fields Church, Trafalgar Square, WC2 |
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Charing Cross |
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Ben
Elton |
| Inconceivable |
Lucy
desperately wants to have a baby. Sam wants to write a hit movie.
Given the average IVF cycle has a one in five chance of success,
Lucy's changes of getting what she wants seem considerably better
than Sam's.
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Chalk
Farm |
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Bo
Fowler |
| Scepticism
Inc |
A
supermarket trolley, with a faith in God, meets Edgar Malloy in
St Pancras Old Church. Edgar is the founder of Scepticism, Inc,
owner of the Metaphysical Betting Shop and soon to be the richest
man in the world
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Wander
up St Pancras Road, past the car-washes and bakeries and you'll
find St Pancras Old Church. |
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St Pancras Old Church, Pancras Road, NW1 |
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Mornington Cresent |
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Nick
Hornby |
| High Fidelity |
Can
you share your life with someone who's record collection is incompatible
with yours? A question Rob Fleming, the owner of a failing record
shop in North London, needs answering.
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Rhythm
Records is a small manic shop with a huge range of Indie CDs upstairs
and rock, soul and R&B vinyl treasures downstairs. |
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Rhythm Records, 281 Camden
High Street, NW1. Tel: 020 7267 0123 |
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Camden Tube |
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Lisa
Jewell |
| Ralph's Party |
Ralph's
party introduces the residents of 31 Almanac road, a three storey
Edwardian house in South London. Ralph and Smith doubt they will
ever find a suitable flatmate until Jemima comes along.
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Clapham
Common |
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Jerome
K Jerome |
| Three Men
in a Boat |
Three
men and a dog head for a restful vacation on the Thames anticipating
peace and leisure. Instead they encounter the joys of roughing
it and coping with the English weather.
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Two men get lost in Hampton Court maze. Laid out in
1714 it is deceptively tricky and the most famous feature of Hampton
Court Palace gardens. |
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Hampton
Court Palace Maze. Tel: 020 8781 9500 |
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Waterloo, change for Hampton Court |
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Anthony
McCarten |
| The English
Harem |
Tracy
Pringle is a supermarket checkout girl with a lively imagination
- her customers are not bored and tired Londoners but Princess
Leia and Omar Sharif. But nothing prepares her for life at the
Taste of Persia restaurant.
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Tooting Broadway |
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John
O'Farrell |
| The Best a
Man Can Get |
Michael
Adams spends his days playing computer games and occasionally
working in his flat-share. When he feels like it, he crosses the
river and goes back to his unsuspecting wife and children. For
Michael is leading a double life doing the things most men with
small children can only dream about.
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Clapham
Common |
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Keith
Waterhouse |
| Soho |
Meet
Christine Yardley, drag queen by night and accountant by day,
or Jenny Wise, resident lush in the New Kismet club. Daily, nightly,
their numbers are swelled by immigrants flocking in to work, drink
and loiter in Soho. And now Alex Singer; twenty four hours later,
he is on his way to the Soho Ball.
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