Johnson was largely unknown to the wider reading public at the time of his death, but has a growing cult following. but we are wrong…we shall die untidily…in a mess, most things unresolved, unreckoned, reflecting that it is all chaos. Are we, therefore, arriving at the answer as to why I wrote this article about a small book from the 70s? First edition, SIGNED AND ADDITIONALLY INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR ON TITLE-PAGE TO JUNE TILLINGHAST: 'For June from Bryan as ever [illegible] 21/2/73'.

It was at the bank that Christie discovered the principles of double-entry book keeping, from which he evolved his Great Idea.Finance is provided by PayPal Credit (a trading name of PayPal UK Ltd, Whittaker House, Whittaker Avenue, Richmond-Upon-Thames, Surrey, United Kingdom, TW9 1EH). Discover the joy of reading with us, your trusted source for affordable books that do not compromise on quality. I)n der Tradition des experimentellen Erzählens und genauer noch in der Tradition jenes abgründigen angelsächsischen Humors, den Autoren wie Sterne, Joyce oder Flann O'Brien begründet haben. Characters frequently mention in passing that they know that they are works of fiction, such as when Malry's mother says to him that she has been his mother for the purposes of the novel (27), or when Christie complains that the novel contains too many exclamation marks (166).

I had picked up a copy of Coe’s biography of Johnson a few years ago but never gotten around to reading it, (it is big, and not knowing anything about its subject I couldn’t justify jumping it to the front of my ever-growing ‘To Read’ list). Christie Malry’s Own Double-Entry, the last novel to be published in B S Johnson's lifetime, is undoubtedly his funniest. Das hat diesen kurzen Roman frisch gehalten, über Aufstieg und Ende des Thatcherismus hinaus bis in die Tage von "New Labour" und "Neuer Mitte".I think I like BS Johnson more than I like his novels, judging from the two I’ve read and the delightful film he made Fat Man on a Beach (which now seems to been been removed from youtube, grrr. The revenges become more and more elaborate and detailed, and then Johnson ends the book in the only possible way. Under the column headed “Aggravation” for offenses received from society (the unpleasantness of the bank manager is the first on an ever-growing list), debit Christie; under “Recompense,” for offenses given back (scratching the façade of an office block), credit Christie.