{"product_id":"9780719563461","title":"Penguins Stopped Play","description":"\u003cp\u003e Author(s): Thompson, Harry, Thompson, Harry \u003cbr\u003e Binding: Paperback, \u003cbr\u003e Date of Publication: 05\/04\/2007,\u003cbr\u003e Pagination: 320 pages,\u003cbr\u003e ISBN13\\EAN\\SKU: 9780719563461,\u003cbr\u003e Description: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'Completely brilliant' Ian HislopIt seemed a simple enough idea at the outset: to assemble a team of eleven men to play cricket on each of the seven continents of the globe. Except - hold on a minute - that's not a simple idea at all. And when you throw in incompetent airline officials, amorous Argentine Colonels' wives, cunning Bajan drug dealers, gay Australian waiters, overzealous American anti-terrorist police, idiot Welshmen dressed as Santa Claus, Archbishop Desmond Tutu and whole armies of pitch-invading Antarctic penguins, you quickly arrive at a whole lot more than you bargained for.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHarry Thompson's hilarious book tells the story of one of those great idiotic enterprises that only an Englishman could have dreamed up, and only a bunch of Englishmen could possibly have wished to carry out.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Griffin Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43697703190572,"sku":"9780719563461","price":12.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0379\/1365\/7388\/files\/9780719563461.jpg?v=1722600051","url":"https:\/\/www.griffinbooksonline.co.uk\/products\/9780719563461","provider":"Griffin Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}