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The Cuckoos of Batch Magna

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When Sir Humphrey Strange, 8th Baronet and squire of Batch Magna, departs this world for the Upper House, what's left of his estate passes, through the ancient law of entailment, to distant relative Humph, an amiable, overweight short-order cook from the Bronx.

Sir Humphrey Franklin T. Strange, 9th Baronet and squire of Batch Magna, as Humph now most remarkably finds himself to be, is persuaded by his Uncle Frank, a small-time Wall Street broker, to make a killing by turning the sleepy backwater into a theme-park image of rural England, a playground for the world's rich.

But while the village pub and shop put out the Stars and Stripes in welcome, the tenants of the estate's dilapidated houseboats tear up their notices to quit, and led by pulp-crime writer Phineas Cook and the one-eyed Lt-Commander James Cunningham, they run up the Union Jack and prepare to engage.

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ISBN: 9781788421232
Publication date: 2nd May 2019
Author: Peter Maughan
Publisher: Farrago an imprint of Duckworth Books
Format: Paperback
Pagination: 316 pages
Series: The Batch Magna Chronicles
Genres: Modern and Contemporary Fiction
Boats
Humour