Books

Books : reviews

Jacky Fleming.
Be a Bloody Train Driver.
Penguin. 1991

rating : 2.5 : great stuff

Jacky Fleming.
Never Give Up.
Penguin. 1992

rating : 2.5 : great stuff

Jacky Fleming.
Falling in Love.
Penguin. 1993

rating : 3 : worth reading

Jacky Fleming.
Dear Katie.
Penguin. 1994

rating : 4 : passes the time
review : 28 August 2006

Letters to Agony Aunt Katie, and her ... unconventional ... replies. Amusing, in a gritted-teeth kind of way. Most of the better ones have already appeared in Falling in Love.

Jacky Fleming.
Hello Boys.
Penguin. 1996

rating : 2.5 : great stuff
review : 7 December 1997

[unwanted frog prince]

More of Jacky Fleming's wonderful cartoons, taking an acerbic look at post-feminism, and whether things have really changed that much.


Jacky Fleming.
Demented.
Bloomsbury. 2004

rating : 3 : worth reading
review : 16 February 2004

A further book of Jacky Fleming's wonderful cartoons, here presented as one single "story", or rant, in the life of a middle-aged woman who suddenly realises she is indeed middle-aged -- including uncomfortably hilarious encounters with reading glasses, supermarket queues, mobile phones, TV ads, and long-lost dreadful school friends.