David Nobbs

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  • Bibliography:
    22 Books (2 Series)
  • First Book:
    January 1965
  • Latest Book:
    June 2014
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Full Series List in Order

Henry Pratt

1 - Second From Last In The Sack Race (1983)
2 - Pratt Of The Argus (1988)
3 - Cucumber Man (1994)
4 - Pratt a Manger (2006)

Reginald Perrin

1 - The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin (1975)
2 - The Return of Reginald Perrin (1977)
3 - The Better World of Reginald Perrin (1978)
4 - The Legacy of Reginald Perrin (1996)

Book List in Order: 22 titles

  • The Itinerant Lodger

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    David Nobbs classic is now available in ebook format.One wintry afternoon a lodger named Wilson arrives at 38, Trebisall Avenue, filled with hope. As he crosses the threshold of Mrs Pollard's house, with its "aura of impending stew" he becomes a new ...

  • Ostrich Country

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    David Nobbs’ classic is now available in ebook format.' " A change of environment will bring you new business and personal interests," said Cousin Percy. Pegasus was glad to hear this.' Whether Pegasus Baines would have been so glad had he foreseen...

  • A Piece of the Sky is Missing

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    David Nobbs’ classic is now available as an ebook .Why should up-and-coming, thirty-two-year-old executive Robert Bellamy get himself the sack? What made him draw a caricature of the Exports Manager on the wall of the non-executive gents? Why is he...

  • The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin

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    Reginald Perrin - 1

    AS READ ON RADIO 4'Manages to find joy in the trivial and creates farce out of monotony . . . To say that a book has 'changed your life' has become so commonplace that it has become almost meaningless. Nonetheless, I think that in this case, it is pr...

  • The Return of Reginald Perrin

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    Reginald Perrin - 2

    This hilarious sequel to The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin follows his absurd trials and tribulations as he finds himself swept to fame and fortune....

  • The Better World of Reginald Perrin

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    Reginald Perrin - 3

    This hilarious episode in the remarkable exploits of Reginald Iolanthe Perrin follows our hero on his most ambitious venture yet.Setting up a commune strictly for the middle-class and middle-aged, Reggie's therapy centre nurtures its clients, encoura...

  • Second From Last In The Sack Race

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    Henry Pratt - 1

    Born into poverty, saddled with a born loser and parrot-strangler for a dad, short sighted and ungainly, young Henry Pratt doesn't exactly have a head start in life.But in David Nobbs’s brilliantly funny evocation of a Yorkshire boyhood, unathletic...

  • A Bit of a Do

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    From the author of the Reginald Perrin series comes a classic tale of two families, one posher than the other, set in a Yorkshire town.‘I’m the groom’s father. You’re the bride’s mother. It’s their wedding day.’When Ted Simcock, maker o...

  • Pratt Of The Argus

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    Henry Pratt - 2

    Henry Pratt, back home from National Service, is a man at last. As eager to prove it as he is to please, he is in at the deep end in his chosen profession - cub reporter on the Thurmarsh Evening Argus.As trams and typewriters chatter to the echoes of...



  • Fair Do's

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    The classic follow-up to A Bit of A Do, about the comedy of Yorkshire life, told through seven more do’s is now available in ebook format.Life is still a social minefield in this small Yorkshire town. From the opening of a vegetarian restaurant to ...

  • Cucumber Man

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    Henry Pratt - 3

    It is 1957. The Suez Crisis has been and gone. Henry Pratt has completed his National Service and is putting his unsuccessful career as Thurmarsh's cub journalist behind him. Leaving Yorkshire, he's taking on a new role and a new challenge - working ...

  • The Legacy of Reginald Perrin

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    Reginald Perrin - 4

    *The fourth book of the classic comic series about the 'sweaty, charming, paunchy, sad, hilarious man' who faked his own death. First published in the late 1970s, the three previous books were made into an immensely popular BBC TV series star...

  • Going Gently

    Kate Thomas was beautiful, intelligent, witty, passionate and sexy. Now, at the ripe old age of ninety-nine, she is trapped in a hospital ward of sad, mad and bad old women. She escapes by playing to herself the video of her life. What a life it has ...

  • Sex and Other Changes

    Every time someone changes sex, there's one less freak in the worldMeet the Divots. They seem a happily married couple, in their cosy suburban home in a cosy suburban town. Then, one day, everything begins to change. Nick drops his bombshell. He want...

  • Pratt a Manger

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    Henry Pratt - 4

    When pretty young TV researcher Nicky Proctor visits Cafe Henry in London's Soho, Henry Pratt's life changes forever. He becomes an instant star of the TV food quiz, A Question of Salt and before long he is given his own series, Hooray, it's Henry. T...

  • Cupid's Dart

    Alan and Ange are on a train, heading for London. Alan is a philosophy lecturer, still a virgin at fifty-five; Ange a twenty-something, horoscope reading, darts groupie. They certainly don't expect their first casual meeting to lead to anything, but ...

  • Obstacles to Young Love

    From one of the greatest comedic writers of a generation comes a story of love, faith and taxidermy.‘Three mighty obstacles threaten the burgeoning love of childhood sweethearts Timothy Pickering and Naomi Walls. They are Steven Venables, a dead cu...

  • It Had to Be You

    Life after Deborah reaffirms Nobbs as the best writer of comedy and observer of the nuances of human nature that there is today.One man, five very different women.James Hollingshurst is a man shaped by those who surround him. And in James's case, it'...

  • The Complete Pratt



  • The Fall and Rise of Gordon Coppinger

    The much-anticipated novel from David Nobbs is the spiritual follow-up to The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin and is as witty as it is prescient.When revelations about the scandalous relationships and less than honest business practices of Sir Gordo...

  • The Second Life of Sally Mottram

    The wonderfully entertaining new novel from bestselling author of The Fall and Rise of Reggie Perrin. Long-time Potherthwaite resident Sally Mottram cannot stand the decline of her town. The bookshop is about to close, abandoned buildings line the...

  • The Grass Widow and the Cow

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Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

David Nobbs has published 22 books.

David Nobbs does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, The Second Life of Sally Mottram, was published in June 2014.

The first book by David Nobbs, The Itinerant Lodger, was published in January 1965.

Yes. David Nobbs has 2 series.
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