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Now We Are Sixty Matthew, Christopher Published by John Murray, London, 1999 Used/ Hardcover ISBN 10: 0719559790 ISBN 13: 9780719559792 When Christopher Matthew was six, the poems of Milne always reassured him that other children were as naughty as he was, so on reaching sixty he decided that he should adapt Now We Are Six for an older audience. Now We Are Sixty is often hilarious, sometimes rueful and always thought-provoking. Some verses are about realising we are not as young as we thought, while some are about the more disconcerting problems of modern life; mobile telephones on trains, anti-social behaviour, traffic jams and the internet. Item Description A beautiful and very clean book. Illustrated with b/w. Published by John Murray, London, 1999. Excellent Condition. Hardcover edition with illustrated dust jacket. Orange cloth boards with gilt lettering on the spine. Illustrated end papers. 112pp.
About the author Christopher Charles Forrest Matthew (born 8 May 1939) is a British writer and broadcaster. He is best known as the author of Now We Are Sixty, inspired by the poems of A. A. Milne in the book Now We Are Six, and as the chronicler of the life and times of the hapless hero, Simon Crisp, in Diary of a Somebody. His books include Diary of a Somebody, Loosely Engaged, The Long-Haired Boy (adapted for TV as A Perfect Hero, starring Nigel Havers), an annotated edition with Benny Green of Three Men in a Boat, The Junket Man, How to Survive Middle Age, Family Matters, The Amber Room, A Nightingale Sang in Fernhurst Road, Now We Are Sixty, Knocking On, Now We Are Sixty (and a Bit), Summoned by Balls, When We Were Fifty, The Man Who Dropped the Le Creuset on His Toe and Other Bourgeois Mishaps. and Dog Treats: An Assortment of Mutts, Mongrels, Puppies and Pooches. Pictures are of actual item(s). Thanks
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