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-- Reviews by the Famous and well Known
Dag Hammarskjold, arguably the finest ever UN Secretary General, once wrote “Do not seek death. Death will find you”. A prophetic thought considering the mysterious circumstances surrounding his own death in a plane crash in 1961 But with that thought in mind, I suspect he would have enjoyed this latest collection of short stories from Gary Morecambe. For death, and its search for victims, is a theme running through them. From warn torn France, to sunny Portugal, the suburbs of London to the Cornish coastline, death (or is it retribution?) arrives in a variety of guises and never leaves empty handed.
In a way I find it difficult to imagine Gary sitting at his computer weaving dark diabolical plots around his finely observed and often complex characters. Because for me the name Morecambe is synonymous with his comic genius of a father, Eric. With his essential ‘other half’, Ernie Wise , Eric and Ern, or Morecambe and Wise remain for me and millions of others , the finest comic duo of the past century. Morecambe means laughter and slapstick comedy. It means horn rimmed glasses and catching imaginary missiles in brown paper bags. Promoting Luton Town football club at every opportunity, and referring to everyone from Elton John and Shirley Bassey to Andre Previn and Glenda Jackson as Sunshine. Oh what memories, and what a tough act to follow.
Wisely, Gary who grew up listening to the one liners and the manic laughter, has not even tried to emulate his dad on the comedy circuit. Instead he’s employed his inherited genes for entertaining in the arena of storytelling, and to one of the most exacting disciplines for any writer – short stories.
So we meet the British agent dropped into German occupied France on a mission to eliminate an enemy – with a difference. The assassin facing his own mortality, and the youth whose besotted love dies on the vine. The cautionary tale of how life’s plans and expectations can be wiped out in a moment of murderous mayhem, and the chilling observations on the creeping inevitability of old age, and the death of youth.
There’s an old English proverb which says “Death always comes too early or too late”. In this collection it comes perfectly timed – just like one of Eric’s one liners.
Angela Rippon OBE, Television Journalist - Written the Foreword
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-- Newspaper and Website Reviews
A dilapidated old caravan out in the sticks does not, at least ostensibly, provide the ideal setting for a horror story, and truth to tell I’m not sure whether Dancing with Angels really is a horror story, as in a strange sort of way it has a happy ending.
Dancing with Angels is an incredibly short story. In fact it’s so short almost any review will sabotage the entire plot, so I’ll refrain; however, I can make a few well-chosen remarks.
Depending on how you approach this tale, you can draw markedly different things from it. It contains a tragic death, which makes it sad, but it also bears witness to a glorious resurrection that gives us hope. Reggie Appleby wants – nay, needs – an audience. He finds one not far from his caravan home, but pays an awful price. Comedians often wonder what it’s like to die on stage. Reggie can, quite literally, tell you.
Mike Hallowell, The Shields Gazette
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DANCING WITH ANGELS
The Brit (Madeira Newspaper)
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Daily Star Sunday (Take 5 Magazine)
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Farnham Herald
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The Southwold Journal
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Pick Me Up Magazine
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Full House Magazine
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The Journal
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DANCING WITH ANGELS
Newbury Weekly News
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-- Readers Comments
A great book, I really enjoyed it.
Gail Marchant
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This book is good, because it consists of many short stories, every story is different and you can take them in, unlike some books with long stories which consist of 700 or more pages, and you can not read it right through at one sitting having other things to do, so by the time you get to the end you’ve forgotten the beginning. The author has done well with each story, enjoyable with them being different.
Doris Ford
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-- Book Signings and Events
-- Libraries that stock this book
The Bodleian Library, Oxford
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The University Library, Cambridge
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The National Library of Wales, Aberystwyth
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The National Library of Scotland, Edinburgh
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The Library of Trinity College, Dublin
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The British Library, Boston Spa
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