There are some books
available based on this new series of Randall & Hopkirk. Only one
is available at the moment, but more are due out later this year. All
books are available from Amazon.co.uk.
There are also details of the Reeves & Moritmer biography.
Randall & Hopkirk related books
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Title : Ghosts from the past |
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Author : Graeme Grant
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Size : 254 pages, paperback
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Published by : Boxtree (http://www.panmacmillan.com)
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ISBN : 0752223461
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Blurb on the back says :
Randall & Hopkirk (Deceased), the cult 60s TV detective series,
is back from the grave with a brand new series. Written and produced
by Charlie Higson, it stars Bob Mortimer as the hapless private detective
Jeff Randall, Vic Reeves as his deceased partner Marty Hopkirk, who
comes back from beyond to help solve cases with his supernatural powers,
and Emilia Fox as Marty's bereaved girlfriend Jeannie.
To accompany the first series comes an original Randall & Hopkirk
(Deceased) novel. When Tallulah Joplin, an old flame of Marty's,
asks Randall for help, Jeannie discovers there were things about her
fiancé she had never known. And they all hark back to a fateful
night, ten years previously, when Marty was a nightclub entertainer
and Tallulah was a sultry vamp...
Now Marty is dead and Tallulah
belongs to a mysterious organisation called Angels with Broken Wings.
But who exactly are the Angels - and why does Tallulah want to track
down an ex-convict called Dave Day? What is the connection to the tall
man with plans for world domination? And will Marty be able to stage
a comeback, and tap dance his way into the limbo limelight?
Fast-paced, action-packed
and furiously funny, Ghosts from the Past is a must for all fans
of Randall & Hopkirk (Deceased).
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Worth buying?:
Not bad, not enough of Randall & Hopkirk for my liking, but still,
it's a great book.
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Title : Ghost in the machine
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Author : Andy Lane
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Size : 271pp
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Published by : Out now, Boxtree (http://www.panmacmillan.com)
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ISBN : 0752223518
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Blurb on the back says:
The calm of the Scottish highlands is shattered when a new Laird dies
a gruesome death on a decommissioned Russian nuclear submarine. Discovering
her inheritance to be under threat, his money-grabbing widow enlists
Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased) to establish the cause of his death.
The investigation gets off to a bad start, and soon Jeff, Jeannie and
the ghostly Marty find that they are discovering more questions than
answers. What are the motives of the two Israelis who make a bid for
the detective agency and are later discovered snooping around the submarine?
How is it that one of them can sense Marty's presence? Who is Abaddon:
the mysterious force mentioned in a coded message found in one of the
dead man's pockets? And why is the film crew that has arrived to make
a documentary about the local fishermen, acting so strangely? It is
only when Jeannie is kidnapped by the Russian Mafia and Jeff is trapped
on board the submarine, fighting for his life, that the trio begin to
uncover the awful truth...
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Reeves & Mortimer related books
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Title: Reeves & Mortimer
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Author: Bruce Dessau
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Size: 318 pages, paperback (including pictures in the middle)
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Published by: Orion, 1999 (revised and updated edition)
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Blurb on back says: "Shooting Stars", "Vic Reeves
Big Night Out", "The Smell of Reeves and Mortimer" -
three shows that changed the face of British comedy. But who are Reeves
and Mortimer? How did they develop their unique brand of hilarious anarchy.
And who exactly was the Man with the stick?
Reeves and Mortimer are the
comic sensation of the 1990s. They have the ability to tap into the
British appreciation of the completely puerile and yet they can create
comedy as clever and sophisticated as anything by The Pythons, Spike
Milligan or Jacques Tati. Their "overnight" success took years
to accomplish: Vic started out working in factories and Bob was a solicitor
in one of the roughest parts of south London.
So why is their off-the-wall
act do popular? In this fascinating first biography of the duo, Bruce
Dessau sums up Vic and Bob's unique talents and reveals the men behind
the comedy.
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Worth getting?: You betch'a! Go and buy a copy now!!
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Title: Sun Boiled Onions
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Author: Vic Reeves
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Size: 160 pages, Hardback
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Published by: Michael Joseph
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ISBN: 0718143965
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What's it all about?: Welcome to the world of Vic Reeves: including
fictional diaries, modern fables and mysterious ramblings, this text
is a surreal journey packed with visual style and eclectic ideas. It
also includes never-seen-before paintings and drawings by the author.
(Taken from the Amazon.co.uk pages).
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Worth getting?: Don't actually have this book, so I couldn't
tell you...if you have this book and you'd like to share your opinion
of it give me an e-mail via the link below! The above link will take
you to Amazon's page for this book, which includes a number of reviews
by people who've bought the book.
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Title: Shooting Stars
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Author: Vic Reeves & Bob Mortimer
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Size: ?, paperback (I believe it includes a CD-ROM?)
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Published by: BBC Consumer Publishing (Books)
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ISBN: 056338784X
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What's it all about?: Linked to the BBC2 spoof game-show, this
pack provides a do-it-yourself quiz game, with hundreds of questions
and answers reflecting the zany humour of the show's presenters, Bob
Mortimer and Vic Reeves. There are also behind-the-scenes features,
and anecdotes about Mortimer and Reeves. (Taken from the Amazon.co.uk
pages).
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Worth getting?: Don't actually have this book, so I couldn't
tell you...if you have this book and you'd like to share your opinion
of it give me an e-mail via the link below!
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