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ISBN: 979-8267255189
Welcome to Craven’s Bristol – a city where every committee becomes a kangaroo court, every philanthropist a pagan oracle, and every cause célèbre an excuse for public indignation.
Into this whirlpool blunders Helix Folt, a hapless Tory innocent confronted with arts bureaucrats, therapeutic nannies, and the small-beer zeal of pub-room radicals. He is tugged from massage parlours to mock tribunals, from octopus-rights crusades to civic pageantry, learning at each turn that virtue in Bristol comes laced with ridicule and rot.
Richard Craven here turns George Eliot inside out, offering not moral earnestness but comic abjection, a panorama of civic grotesque in which the only constant is the lavatory. Helix Folt the Conservative extends Craven’s Bristol canon with the same reckless erudition and gleeful indecorum that marked Amoeba Dick, Odour Issues and Pretty Poli.
Sensitive souls may recoil. The rest are invited to drink deeply from this cracked chamberpot of a novel.
Characters, Locations, Items and Pubs
- The Old Disgrace - Pub
- Fascist Dictatorship of Stokes Croft - Location
- Sir Ezra Tertiary-Syphilis - Character
- Sir Hearty Luncheon - Character
- Mr Jagtar Singh - Character
- Mr Luvvertory - Character
- Ms. Gamina Dročerpyatova - Character
- Minerva Ledwitch - Character
- Lord Handjob - Character
- Don Quicksotte - Character
- Dr Mark Wankstain -
- Constable Wifebeating-Cokehead -
- Crass Cheseham - Character
- Handjob Luncheon - Character
- Helix Folt - Character