Legless in Polperro - Paperback

by John Swinfield (Author)

A surrealistic romp through the comic correspondence and outlandish adventures of a naval grandee and his slightly crackpot circle. It is a satire of social mores through the mad-cap carnival of personalities and escapades. Welcome to volatile bulldogs, budgie-seed addicts, balloonatics, impulsive surgeons, Pisky liberationists, naked pedalista, Russian pilchard kings and Nobby, an aerial predator on the roof of Boscastle gents lavatory. A fast-moving and hilarious commentary on the world and its absurdities.

Author Biography

John Swinfield has an MA in maritime history and is an ex-Fleet Street journalist, broadcaster and historian. A former Industrial Journalist of the Year, he was an on-screen reporter with Nationwide (BBC1) and The Money Programme (BBC2). For ITV/C4 he made the Enterprise series, an award-winning documentary strand where he travelled the globe, producing and directing myriad films about the rich and influential, such as David Rockefeller, Robert Maxwell, Richard Branson and Gloria Vanderbilt. He has three Royal Television Society awards. He won the Sandford St. Martin Premier Award for his film Beggars in Paradise (ITV) shot in Peru, one of several documentaries he made about dispossessed peoples in the teeming slums of Latin America and south-east Asia. John Swinfield was also previously the executive producer of Arts & Features for Anglia Television and is a well-known public speaker. His published works include two world histories Airship: Design, Development & Disaster; and the daring saga of early submariners, from Da Vinci's earliest imaginings to the underwater warriors of WW1, Sea Devils: Pioneer Submariners.