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Malcolm, Peter and Charlie and their Soave-sodden wives have one main ambition left in life: to drink Wales dry. But their routine is both shaken and stirred when they are joined by professional Welshman Alun Weaver (CBE) and his wife, Rhiannon.

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A copy should be given out with every bus pass. -- John Sutherland * The Times *
A brilliant novel. It is sadly comic and comically sad -- Anthony Burgess
He was a genuine comic writer, probably the best after P. G. Wodehouse ... He had a lasting influence and was a very good novelist -- John Mortimer
A bloody funny lovely bloody book... A genius at full throttle * Financial Times *
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The Old Devils

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      Publisher Penguin Random House Group
      Imprint Vintage Classics
      Published 5 February 2004
      ISBN-13 9780099461050
      978-0099461050
      ISBN-10 0099461056
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      Contemporary Fiction Satire & Humour

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Malcolm, Peter and Charlie and their Soave-sodden wives have one main ambition left in life: to drink Wales dry. But their routine is both shaken and stirred when they are joined by professional Welshman Alun Weaver (CBE) and his wife, Rhiannon.

      Trade Review
      A copy should be given out with every bus pass. -- John Sutherland * The Times *
      A brilliant novel. It is sadly comic and comically sad -- Anthony Burgess
      He was a genuine comic writer, probably the best after P. G. Wodehouse ... He had a lasting influence and was a very good novelist -- John Mortimer
      A bloody funny lovely bloody book... A genius at full throttle * Financial Times *
      In these explicit days, Mr Amis is the laureate of the unsayable, the literary it man * Sunday Telegraph *

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