Potty, Fartwell & Knob (enhanced paperback)
Following the success of the hardback edition in 2007, the paperback – the ‘director’s cut’ – is bigger and better, with almost a third more – and larger – pages, and even more hilarious names. It is, in fact, Pottier, Fartier and Knobier.
As well as new names, many of them supplied by readers who have taken the opportunity to shop their school friends, work colleagues and even members of their own families, it contains more married couples (don’t you wish you had attended the Axe–Killer, Dick–Holder or Sargent–Pepper weddings?) and entirely new sections on such themes as dyslexic names, anagrams and palindromes.
So stand by to meet the names that got away, among them Dick Face, Hercules Stuffing, Belle Button, Bendy Corner, Joseph McArse, Catherine Shagger, Annette Curtain, Pedor File, Mad Looney, Rhoda Broom, Henrietta Mosquito, Phil McCracken, Easter Bunny, Jonah Whalebelly, Gladys Over, Lydia Kettle, Ryan Air, Sukey Cock, Faithfull Tadpole, Bob A. Job, Benjamin Mushroom, Ivor Hardon, Mary Roughbottom, Pat Mycock, Fanny Topless, Willy McBum, Annie Bodys, Lunabella S. Heagorty, Ewan Kerr, Marmaduke Windass, Petronella Shafter, Lettice Agree, Anita Bath, Isla White, Thick Burke, Heath Roe, Eatme Edwards and Pigge Scattergutt.
Paperback: 336 pages
Publisher: Headline, 2 October 2008, £6.99
On 29 October 2008, Potty, Fartwell & Knob was the book of the day in ‘The Daily Universal Register’ page of The Times, which commented:
“This is a tribute to the abysmal naming skills of British parents over the centuries. Among the victims are Boadicea Belch, Annie Bodys, Harry Liver Brain, Emily Spew Hole – and these are not the worst.”
Other recent features and reviews:
Christopher Howse in The Daily Telegraph
Christopher Hirst
in The Independent
Tim Spanton in The Sun
Garrick Alder in Bedfordshire on Sunday
ISBN-10: 075531655X
ISBN-13: 978-0755316557
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