The Complete Henry Root Letters

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You Cannot Live As I Have Lived and Not End Up Like This: The thoroughly disgraceful life and times of Willie Donaldson, Terence Blacker, Ebury Press, 2007, pp. com, who sent a letter to all US senators, posing as a child and asking them for their favourite joke.

Back in 1979, people with too much time on their hands could send actual letters to leading politicians, judges and other luminaries of light entertainment, and expect a reply. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average.His letters, full of alleged scandals and hanky panky, are taken perfectly seriously by their recipients whose responses are as funny as Root's own rantings. Published in 1980, what would Henry Root of the wet fish emporium make of the A to Z listers of today. Root wrote the BBC – I think Monty Python had his number, the Queen, Prince Charles, various publishing houses. This book is a compendium of actual letters which the author wrote to all kinds of people of note - all from his persona of some kind of hard core petite bourgeoise British citizen.

I love this book and his laugh out style at trying to rankle celebrities and people in the public eye. Edna Welthorpe was a prudish middle-aged housewife who was strongly opposed to her creator Joe Orton's plays. The letters aren’t really dated, with the exception of certain BBC television stars and the one to the South African Ambassador.The millions who enjoyed the original 'Root' will no doubt have assumed that such a public and hysterical scam could never be repeated. Together, they provide a powerful impression of what life must have been like in late-Seventies Britain for a retired trader in wet fish, seeing his country overrun by lesbians, lefties and other losers. By using the Web site, you confirm that you have read, understood, and agreed to be bound by the Terms and Conditions. It consists of real correspondence between an apparently wealthy and eccentric retired fish-merchant, and many public figures to whom he wrote, requesting support for bizarre right-wing proposals.

Liz Reed - another character created by William Donaldson, Reed's TV production pitches - for shows such as 'Disabled Gladiators' and 'Anglotrash' - in the guise of Heart Felt Productions were collected in the 1998 book, The Heart Felt Letters. When he hits a target full on, or when the target responds with good grace or a sense of humour, it's hilarious, however. Donaldson's ghastly creation wrote outrageous, threatening, scurrilous and outlandish letters to public figures, praising, insulting or attempting to bribe them. Not only have so many of the people approached here faded from the memory that one can't quite remember why they were laughable, but some of the attitudes verge on bullying and prejudice in a way that's now well beyond the bounds of acceptability by today's mores.H. Rochester Sneath - the fictional headmaster of the fictional British public school Selhurst, created by Humphry Berkeley. This single volume brings together "The Henry Root Letters" and "The Further Letters of Henry Root". You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice. a b c "William Donaldson – Womanising satirist and novelist who squandered several fortunes on wild living".

You Cannot Live as I Have Lived and Not End Up Like This: The Thoroughly Disgraceful Life and Times of Willie Donaldson. M Godding Books Ltd is an internet book business running from Wiltshire and sending books all over the world every working day.

His experiences there formed the basis of his first novel, Both the Ladies and the Gentlemen (1975). Root first came to my attention more years ago than I care to admit when I was in Denmark and saw the televised version of Root into Europe.