On Second Thoughts: Bad First Ideas and Other Rubbish from the Bins of the Famous
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On Second Thoughts: Bad First Ideas and Other Rubbish from the Bins of the Famous by Simon Brett
Fiction and humour writer Brett invents what might have been found in the imaginary wastepaper baskets of the famous and great from history. Things could have been very different if King Arthur had figured out the seating plan for a square table, if Picasso hadn't received the wrong prescription for his spectacles or if Ronald Reagan hadn't misspelled 'unclear' as 'nuclear' in his lost letter to Gorbachev. He reveals lost scenes from Hemingway, the true origins of the Bayeux Tapestry, the first draft of "Waiting for Godot" where Godot entered in Scene One, and the Freudian slips in Sigmund Freud's more trivial correspondence.
Simon Brett worked as a light entertainment producer in radio and TV before taking up writing full time in 1979. As well as the long running Charles Paris and Mrs Pargeter detective series and the current Fetherling Mystery series, he is also the author of the radio and television series After Henry, the radio series No Commitments and the best-selling How to be a Little Sod. His novel A Shock to the System was filmed starring Michael Caine. Married with three children, he lives in an Agatha Christie-style village on the South Downs.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781840245479 |
| ISBN 10 | 1840245476 |
| Title | On Second Thoughts: Bad First Ideas and Other Rubbish from the Bins of the Famous |
| Author | Simon Brett |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Octopus Publishing Group |
| Year published | 2006-09-04 |
| Number of pages | 176 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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