Household Tips of the Great Writers

What would literary lions tell us about cooking, cleaning, and gardening? A three-book collection of parody and practical advice by a "e;brilliant"e; humorist (The Financial Times). The Household Tips of Great Writers covers all your household needs, indoors and outdoors, from pruning a rose bush with Pablo Neruda to mending a dripping tap with Jean-Paul Sartre. Throwing a tea party? Irvine Welsh has the recipe for the perfect chocolate cake, though that's not all he's cooking. Brilliant, hilarious, and always pitch-perfect, this omnibus edition of Mark Crick's wonderful books of literary pastiche will inform and entertain the most erudite of householders. Includes: Sartre's Sink "e;This brilliantly inventive DIY manual both parodies and celebrates great authors ... Crick is a brilliant literary ventriloquist."e; The Financial Times Kafka's Soup "e;These literary and visual pastiches of writers and their relationships with food provide a laugh a line as they skewer their literary originals with effortless accuracy...a masterpiece."e; The Guardian Machiavelli's Lawn "e;Erudite and enjoyable prose, no less rewarding for its horticultural accuracy."e; Times Literary Supplement