Novels/Collections

Novels/Collections : reviews

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Jacky Fleming. Be a Bloody Train Driver. Penguin. 1991

Rating: 2.5
[ unmissable | great stuff | worth reading | mind candy | waste of time | unfinishable ]

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Jacky Fleming. Never Give Up. Penguin. 1992

Rating: 2.5
[ unmissable | great stuff | worth reading | mind candy | waste of time | unfinishable ]

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Jacky Fleming. Falling in Love. Penguin. 1993

Rating: 3
[ unmissable | great stuff | worth reading | mind candy | waste of time | unfinishable ]

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Jacky Fleming. Dear Katie. Penguin. 1994

Rating: 4
[ unmissable | great stuff | worth reading | mind candy | waste of time | unfinishable ]

reviewed 28 August 2006

Letters to Agony Aunt Katie, and her ... unconventional ... replies. Amusing, in a gritted-teeth kind of way. Most of the better ones have already appeared in Falling in Love.

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Jacky Fleming. Hello Boys. Penguin. 1996

Rating: 2.5
[ unmissable | great stuff | worth reading | mind candy | waste of time | unfinishable ]

reviewed 7 December 1997

[unwanted frog prince]

More of Jacky Fleming's wonderful cartoons, taking an acerbic look at post-feminism, and whether things have really changed that much.


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Jacky Fleming. Demented. Bloomsbury. 2004

Rating: 3
[ unmissable | great stuff | worth reading | mind candy | waste of time | unfinishable ]

reviewed 16 February 2004

A further book of Jacky Fleming's wonderful cartoons, here presented as one single "story", or rant, in the life of a middle-aged woman who suddenly realises she is indeed middle-aged -- including uncomfortably hilarious encounters with reading glasses, supermarket queues, mobile phones, TV ads, and long-lost dreadful school friends.