Is that Barry The Time Sprout? And Elvis gets a look in?
No. Aliens who smell of creosote and look like Jack Palance. Basic premise is tha Brentford was the original garden of Eden. Featuring two chancers who save the world by mistake while avoiding an honest day’s work
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For true stories this is good.
also funny
If you haven’t read them already:
and
The El Al security section in the latter in particular is spectacular.
Speaking of trilogies that aren’t, try The Dublin Trilogy starting with
which follows Bunny McGarry’s idiosyncratic approach to policing the fair city. Bit of whodunnit, a lot of local patter.
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Read them. The Brentford Trilogy is much better, particularly ‘ The Sprouts of Wrath’ although ‘East of Ealing’ is excellent too.
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I think I read them a very long time ago.
Must revisit.
The burglar diaries - Danny king
easy read trash, I’ve read a few of them the above and ye pornographic diaries are probably the best two
Bill Bryson if you haven’t already read them.
Garrison Keillor