Puckoon" Spike Milligan's first novel bursts at the seams with superb comic characters involved in unbelievably likely troubles on the Irish border. It's 1924 & the Boundary Commission is deciding on the new line between Northern Ireland & the Irish Republic. With much pushing & shoving the border finds it's way down the middle of Puckoon dividing house from outhouse man from wife & pub chairs from bars. Something must be done! " Desperately funny vivid vulgar". (" Sunday Times"). " Milligan is the Great God to all of us". (John Cleese). " The Godfather of Alternative Comedy". (Eddie Izzard). " That absolutely glorious way of looking at things differently. A great man". (Stephen Fry). Spike Milligan was one of the greatest & most influential comedians of the twentieth century. Born in India in 1918 he served in the Royal Artillery during WWII in North Africa & Italy. At the end of the war he forged a career as a jazz musician sketch-show writer & performer before joining forces with Peter Sellers & Harry Secombe to form the legendary " Goon Show". Until his death in 2002 he had success as on stage & screen & as the author of over eighty books of fiction memoir poetry plays cartoons & children's stories."