The Garnett Chronicles: The Life and Times of Alfred Garnett Esq. (H/B) 1986

Two Alf Garnett Books by Johnny Speight

1) THE GARNETT CHRONICLES: THE LIFE AND TIMES OF ALFRED GARNETT ESQ. As Told to Johnny Speight.

In response to popular demand and his upstairs neighbour Mrs Hollingbery (and against the wishes of most of the people who live down his street), Alf Garnett has at last put down on paper an account of his life and times, and what he calls his thoughts about them.

 Now woidowed and with time on his hands, Alf was asked to write a record of his life with Else (She'd turn in her grave,' says their daughter Rita), to leave for posterity the true story of the Garnett family, 'pack of lies,' says Mr Johnson, one of Alf's neighbours; 'it's all cobblers,' says Winston, his coloured home help.

 Alf suggests truly radical solutions to put the Great back in britain, which will make hilarious reading for the Royal Family, politicians, and every other inhabitant of the country. Read some of the things the Prince of wales told Alf's dad - secrets of royalty even the Sunday Times failed to discover (They should chop his head off, that editor!")

 As he grapples with the autobiographical, Alf airs his opinions on a range of subjects from home helps to drinking, illness to sex, women's lib to football holliganism.

Illustrated with rare photos from Alf's personal collectio (Else thought she'd burned them all), THE GARNETT CHRONICLES are side-splittingly funny, bitter, frequently very perceptive - and the definitive version of Alf Garnett's world.

a VINTAGE hardback published in 1986 by Robson Books

 

2) THE THOUGHTS OF CHAIRMAN ALF by Johnny Speight (illustrated by Stanley Franklin)

Alf Garnett's Little Blue Book or Where England Went Wrong.

Alf Garnett has variously been described as 'a modern Falstaff'. 'an Orwellian character with misplaced loyalties of Dickensian proportions', 'a kind of English fairy, an eternal type like Puke.' However that may be, Alf here reveals himself to be the uniquely ignorant, loud-mouthed, opinionated bigot who enraged and delighted twenty million television viewers, the man whose inimatable, convoluted logic defies all attempts at argument.

a VINTAGE paperback published in 1974 by Sphere Books   

 

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