4 Books by Alexei Sayle
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Overview: Alexei David Sayle (born 7 August 1952) is an English stand-up comedian, actor, author and former recording artist. He was a central part of the alternative comedy circuit in the early 1980s. He was voted the 18th greatest stand-up comic on Channel 4’s 100 Greatest Stand-ups in 2007. Much of Sayle’s humour is in the tradition of Spike Milligan and Monty Python, with riffs based on absurd and surreal premises.[7] His act is noted for its cynicism and political awareness, as well as physical comedy.
Sayle has written two short story collections and five novels, including a graphic novel, as well as columns for various publications. His book Great Bus Journeys of the World, co-written with David Stafford, is mostly a collection of his columns for Time Out and the Sunday Mirror.He was one of eight contributory authors to the BBC Three competition End of Story, in which members of the public completed the second half of stories written by established authors.The winning entry to Sayle’s story, Imitating Katherine Walker, was written by freelance writer Arthur Allan. Sayle’s autobiography Stalin Ate My Homework, which focuses on his early life and which he describes as a ‘satirical memoir’, was published in 2010.
Genre: Fiction > Literary | Contemporary | Humor
The Dog Catcher (2001)
The acclaimed BARCELONA PLATES revealed Alexei Sayle as a writer with an outstanding ability to describe contemporary life in an unusual way. Now, in his new collection THE DOG CATCHER, he brilliantly captures the morals and absurdities of our so-called ‘cool’ culture, populated by characters as recognizable as they are memorable. THE DOG CATCHER will confirm Alexei Sayle’s reputation as not only one of the great exponents of the short story genre, but also as a profound commentator on the way we live now.
Overtaken (2003)
Kelvin is a 33-year-old property developer living in a small Lancashire town.
He has five close friends, all in well-paid jobs. Having bought their lovely houses cheaply in the early 1990s, they are free to spend money on their own pleasures – particularly clothes, meals and cars. Most of all, their life revolves around going to see things – art exhibitions, comedians, live music, plays…
When we first meet the six friends they are on their way to see a new kind of circus. Once there Kelvin does something unforgivable to a clown, has a strange snack and meets the most beautiful girl he has ever seen.
It’s the beginning of the end of the good life.
The Weeping Women Hotel (2006)
Northern girl Harriet lives and works on a London estate which is a battleground between the white working class plus the immigrants versus the newly arrived middle class focaccia-eaters. Unhappy and overweight, she hires a personal trainer who lures her into joining the martial arts class he runs. There she learns the regime of the completely phoney martial arts master and embarks on a spiritual and literal journey which leads her to a hotel opposite the railway station at Crewe, the Weeping Women Hotel. This is Alexei Sayle’s best work to date good plot, great characters plus his trademark anarchic black humour.
Mister Roberts (2008)
Millions of light years away a battle raged. In a bid for freedom a lone spaceship hurtled through space before crashing in the hills outside a small village in Spain. On Christmas Day a strong, silent man with blank eyes entered Bar Noche Azul. Only a 13-year-old boy could have guessed that there was any connection between the two.
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