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Collaborative writer on this book was Lewis Chester.

‘Between [Roger Law and Lewis Chester], they have garnished Law’s jolly life story with diverting details … Law sounds like he’s having far too much fun in the sun to risk a return to gloomy British satire. But his superb illustrations suggest that, should he ever tire of Bondi Beach, another brilliant career awaits back home in the periodicals that spawned his grotesque yet loveable effigies.’

Independent, William Cook

‘Many glorious illustrations … litter this book … [it] is worth buying just for the twin studies of kangaroos. Not that it isn’t a marvellous read. Still Spitting at Sixty is that rare thing, a ghost-written book that somehow distils its “writer’s” essential flavour … Hazlitt said we applaud satirists not out of love but fear. Impossible, though, to read this book and not love its author. Partly this is because it is so pungently amusing, partly because it is so unsickeningly life-affirming.’

Sunday Times, Christopher Bray

‘This is really a sublime autobiography … [it contains] some of the finest pieces of writing about Australia. Much more evocative than Bill Bryson. And the illustrations are wonderful.’

Sydney Morning Herald

‘Highly engaging … a breeze, a pleasure to read, as it leaps from anecdote to anecdote with aplomb and much humour. Like all the best people, Law is a dedicated fan of P.G.Wodehouse, and there are some lovely jokes here, if not the awesomely polished prose of his hero. This is a much more distinctive piece of work than the usual run of showbiz memoirs. And yet there is clearly something going on underneath … great entertainment, and his paintings, which somehow manage to be both bold and delicate, are quite something.’

Daily Mail, Marcus Berkmann

‘Filled with all the lunacy and flair that one would expect from the co-producer and creator of Spitting Image.’

Guardian

‘This entertaining memoir takes the reader behind the scenes at Spitting Image and on to a series of hilarious adventures as a “teenage granddad” in the Outback of Australia.’

Sunday Express