Book description
After throwing a tin of pineapples at his boss's head, TV superchef
Terry Whittaker runs away from London, failed love and a dying father,
and arrives in the sleepy old city of Pancester to open his own
restaurant. Pancester is slow to change and clings to its medieval
traditions and seventies fashions. But now change is being forced on the
city as the council wish to build a car park on the Dole Acre Donkey
Sanctuary. Whittaker tries to stop the woman he loves, or rather stalks,
from developing the site and finds that he has some strange allies: not
least a field full of raving hippies, desperate to save England's finest
magic mushroom field. With guest appearances from the Time Team gang,
the renowned expert on the world's rarest snail, a sinister individual
called Q, and the largest ancient priapic temple ever found, The Battle
for Dole Acre is a dazzlingly funny novel with enormously popular
appeal. Ian Marchant is from Sussex. He has worked in bookmakers¿
shops, sung in obscure pop groups and stripped in obscure northern
comedy clubs. He has left his Lancashire caravan for London, where he
manages a bookshop on Charing Cross Road.
