More Lakeland Larks, Laughter and Lunacies

Clive Elphick - 23 Nov, 2024

Anna's first book in this series, Lakeland Larks, Laughter and Lunacies is selling well, and this is the sequel. The book has more tales of her exploits hiking in the Lakes and an interlude on entertaining errors to be found in newspapers in their use of English grammar. Best of all, however, are many more of her comic verses. These are on topics as diverse as Christmas excesses, booster jabs, her lack of cooking skills, Keswick buses, investment scams, picnics, taxes, quangos, gizmos and Finn the cat. This is an ideal Christmas stocking filler.

Robert Heinaman - 13 Nov, 2024

Anyone who enjoyed Anna Nolan's earlier book Lakeland, Larks, Laughter and Lunacies will also enjoy this volume which, like the first, recounts various adventures and crises she has experienced during her extensive explorations of England's Lake District. However, much of the book explores a variety of other topics as well, including some pungent commentary on British politics and an amusing incident involving her mother and cats. (By the way, Anna's mother, Maria Szubert, published an absorbing account of her life in Poland under the German and Soviet invasions, Between Black Death and Red Plague). Anna is also an English grammar fanatic, and one of the most enjoyable chapters supplies a small sample of the enormous number of hilarious grammatical blunders she has been collecting over many years.

Mike Addison - 07 Nov, 2024

From the review published in North Lakes Living by the News Editor of The Keswick Reminder, Mike Addison

Dedicated to her fellow Skiddaw u3a Roamers, Anna Nolan’s sequel to her first book is just as laugh-out-loud funny, continuing to chart her car-less Lake District escapades and mishaps interspersed with her jocular musings and satirical asides. Anna’s love of English grammar also shines through, and there is a particularly enjoyable chapter featuring her vast collection of howlers or, as she puts it, “unintentionally hilarious examples of dangling participles”. The author’s fun-loving personality shines through once again, and you cannot fail to smile along at her opinions on a range of subjects, including NHS dentistry – which she put into verse – and bus travel as well as her exuberant and frolicsome outings on the fells.