Nudge, Nudge, Wink, Wink ; Diane Mason Explains How She and Her Brother Came to Create a Rude Romp Through the Naughty Secrets of the British Empire

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Humour RIGHT UP THE EMPIRE Diane Mason and Andrew Selwood Summersdale Pounds 9.99 M y brother Andrew Selwood and I have taken a peek at what the butler saw but didn't like to talk about in our new book, Right Up The Empire. The book pairs chaste illustrations from 19th-century periodicals with apt and often racy captions.

Looking through my collection of Victorian magazines on a wet Sunday afternoon, Andrew pointed out one of the typically over- posed and melodramatic illustrations and suggested that the character ought to be saying. It was very funny. And the closer we studied the material, the more potential for comedy we found. It seemed like a great idea for a book.

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Nudge, Nudge, Wink, Wink ; Diane Mason Explains How She and Her Brother Came to Create a Rude Romp Through the Naughty Secrets of the British Empire

We worked on the book every weekend for about four months before submitting a sample of our material to Summersdale in ...

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