Flight From Deathrow, Harry Hill
Flight From Deathrow, Harry Hill
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Flight From Deathrow

Author: Harry Hill

Narrator: Harry Hill

Abridged: 1 hr 59 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 04/02/2009

Categories: Fiction


Synopsis

What happens when an artificial-foot freedom fighter throws a British-made foot at the Chairman of the Communist Party of China? Will Dong Xiao Ping make it to Tower Records to buy the latest Status Quo album? Will Andrew Lloyd Webber complete his new musical 'Dog Breeder'? Will Willie Whitelaw marry his parrot? Will our hero make that engagement at the Gonk factory in Leeds?

As a stand-up comedian, Harry Hill is the equal of Eddie Izzard, Rich Hall and Frank Skinner. Performing bareback for the first time, the self-styled debonaire dachshund now makes his fiction debut.

About Harry Hill

Harry Hill's critically acclaimed live & TV performances have established his reputation as one of the country's best comedians. Now the TV starlet, friend of David Bowie and David Letterman's favourite UK comic turns his unique, multi-award winning brand of humour and highly original comic mind to writing this, his debut novel.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Leo on November 02, 2017

What an odd book. With Harry Hill I'd say about 70% of his stuff I absolutely love (his stand-up, TV Burp, Alien Fun Capsule) and about 30% I don't enjoy at all (Harry Hill's Tea Time on Sky being the main example). Sadly, this book falls into the 30%. The intricate style of his wonderful early stan......more

Goodreads review by Phil on September 10, 2021

Still as funny and mad as when I read it almost twenty years ago. If you love Harry Hill as much as I do, it’s a must-read; if you don’t, then you won’t be interested anyway. The hilarity is created by juxtaposing real life figures of entertainment and politics with invented, and largely monstrous,......more

Goodreads review by Joseph on September 19, 2023

Brilliant, laugh out loud funny. Do not read on an aeroplane, you might be asked to leave, or at least slip on a straight jacket. The story line is surreal, unreal and totally bonkers. I read it all in one day as I couldn't put it down or stop laughing. I laughed so much that my wife thought I was g......more

Goodreads review by Grace on January 15, 2013

This book is described as Harry Hill's debut "novel", but to be perfectly honest, it doesn't really fall into that category. If it was a novel, it would be a fictional work with a coherent, cohesive storyline, characters who are acting out the details of the story, description detailing the action,......more

Goodreads review by Thomas on May 02, 2024

I’ll always have a soft spot for Harry Hill but I think this book proved that his sense of humour is best suited to the screen......more