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or: Monsieur Perroquet's descent from a high perch
ISBN: 979-8337669526
ENTER RICHARD CRAVEN’S BRISTOL ONCE MORE – A DARKLY COMIC URBAN MAZE WHERE WILDLY ABSURD MISADVENTURES COLLIDE WITH SHARP WIT, UNEXPECTED REVERSALS, AND A SPLASH OF THE MACABRE.
In this second volume of Richard Craven’s Bristolian Chronicles, meet dissipated parrot architect Hawksmoor Perroquet as he arrives in Bristol and promptly succumbs to a ketamine frenzy at the Anarchist Bookfair, during which he sells his wife, brainless budgerigar Arabella Melopsittica, and their egg to a passing ornithologist. Prompted by his remorse to eschew equine tranquilizers, in his newfound sobriety he commences his ascent of the greasy pole of human endeavour. His progress towards the dizzy heights of the Bristol Mayoralty is aided by the machinations of depressive provincial merchant banker Sir Hearty Luncheon, but then his wife and presumed daughter rematerialise, precipitating his usurpation by genial Scottish crow Ian Corby, and a headlong descent into drugs and disgrace.
Equally recalling the grandiosity of Greek tragedy and the squalor of low burlesque satire, Pretty Poli ploughs the Bristolian grand guignol furrow sown by the similarly lewd but literary Amoeba Dick.
Characters, Locations, Items and Pubs
- The Shouty Cunt - Pub
- Turbo Island -
- The Craquepipe & Slappers - Pub
- The Katze und Rad - Pub
- The Masonic Gite - Pub
- The Spitting Chav - Pub
- Siddhartha Yoga - Location
- Snandrews - Location
- Snandrews Road - Location
- Squattocrat Towers - Location
- The Bearpit - Location
- St Werbuggers - Location
- The Old Disgrace - Pub
- The Old Council House - Location
- The Mynah Arms - Pub
- Magistrates Court - Location
- The Mayoral Residence - Location
- The Ghastly Hipster Opposite Turbo Island - Pub
- The BRI - Location
- Fascist Dictatorship of Stokes Croft - Location
- Dogging Woods - Location
- Crapstore - Location
- Little Mogadishu - Location
- Francis MacMahon’s lock-up - Location
- Fruit & Nut Flake - Location
- Penistone House - Location
- Perky Pets - Location
- Black Racist Centre - Location
- Boutique hotel - Location
- Bridewell sty - Location
- Bristol Coroner’s Court - Location
- City Hall - Location
- Club Autonomie - Location
- Caius & Tiberius Craquus - Character
- Messrs Justices Shallow & Silent - Character
- Bar Wanque - Pub
- Arabella Melopsittica - Character
- Sir Ezra Tertiary-Syphilis - Character
- Sir Hearty Luncheon - Character
- Solomon - Character
- St Just - Character
- Superintendent “Gloucester” Oldspot - Character
- Mr Francis MacMahon - Character
- Mr Jagtar Singh - Character
- Mr Vagus - Character
- Ms. Gamina Dročerpyatova - Character
- Medusa the gorgon - Character
- Minerva Ledwitch - Character
- Miss Isolde Acridotheres - Character
- Infirmary Nurse - Character
- Lord Handjob - Character
- Lord Snatch - Character
- Gilles de Pantalon Rouge - Character
- Hawksmoor Perroquet -
- Hieronymous - Character
- Ianeass the Gimp - Character
- Ian Corby - Character
- Don Quicksotte - Character
- Dr Mark Wankstain -
- Constable Wifebeating-Cokehead -
- Crass Cheseham - Character
- A passing ornithologist - Character
- Alderman Oldphart -
- Handjob Luncheon - Character
- Slickrobbers - Character
- Beggarswell Close - Location