Fibber in the Heat, Miles Jupp
Fibber in the Heat, Miles Jupp
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Fibber in the Heat

Author: Miles Jupp

Narrator: Miles Jupp

Unabridged: 8 hr 10 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Ebury Digital

Published: 05/10/2012

Synopsis

Fanatical about cricket since he was a boy, MILES JUPP would do anything to see his heroes play. But perhaps deciding to bluff his way into the press corps during England's Test series in India wasn't his best idea.

By claiming to be the cricket correspondent for BBC Scotland and getting a job with the (Welsh) Western Mail, Miles lands the press pass that will surely be the ticket to his dreams. Soon, he finds himself in cricket heaven - drinking with David Gower and Beefy, sharing bar room banter with Nasser Hussain and swapping diarrhoea stories with the Test Match Special team. Amazing!

But struggling in the heat under the burden of his own fibs, reality soon catches up with Miles as - like a cricket-obsessed Boot from Evelyn Waugh's Scoop - he bumbles from one disaster to the next. A joyous, charming, yet cautionary tale, Fibber in the Heat is for anyone who's ever dreamt about doing nothing but watching cricket all day long.

About Miles Jupp

Miles Jupp is an actor, comedian and writer. He played Nigel in the BAFTA winning sitcom REV, and John Duggan in Armando Iannucci's THE THICK OF IT, and has made multiple appearances on HAVE I GOT NEWS FOR YOU, MOCK THE WEEK and WOULD I LIE TO YOU? Film appearances include THE MONUMENTS MEN, directed by and starring George Clooney, Michael Winterbottom's THE LOOK OF LOVE and MADE IN DAGENHAM. Miles has appeared on the West End stage in NEVILLE'S ISLAND and at the National Theatre in BOTH RULES FOR LIVING and PEOPLE.As well as writing and starring in the successful BBC Radio 4 sitcom IN AND OUT OF THE KITCHEN, in 2015 he also took over from Sandi Toksvig as host of THE NEWS QUIZ.

Reviews

Goodreads review by F.R. on July 01, 2012

Miles Jupp is becoming an increasingly visible presence on British TV these days. He shows up on ‘Have I Got News For You’ and ‘Would I Lie To You’ – and I thought he was very authoritative on the entertaining documentary Andy Hamilton made about Satan. However when I first saw him, he wasn’t a mid-......more

Goodreads review by Jo Berry on March 15, 2023

A pleasant and funny book to read. Miles Jupp has a very clear writing style, so I sailed through the pages. I laughed out loud at a few points. I’ll be honest, I know very little about cricket, but that wasn’t much of a problem. I know the famous names of the game’s past, like David Gower and Ian B......more

Goodreads review by Stephen on February 24, 2021

funny travel log of the author blagging himself a press pass and going on an England tour of India and all of his adventures......more

Goodreads review by Nick on December 06, 2024

Jupp has a gentle, slightly bumbling style which you'd expect would suit this tale - that of a cricket fan attempting to blag/make his way through an England tour of India as a journalist. It does, in the main, but in the end I thought it only did so 'to an extent'. Light and entertaining, with some......more

Goodreads review by Loz on February 26, 2023

I really like Miles Jupp so might be biased and I love cricket. However this is a beautifully written, very gentle story of a love of English cricket taken to the extreme. Every cricket lover with any love of comedy should read it - you will not be disappointed!......more

Quotes

Crisply funny... Jupp is a genteel treat Guardian

Jupp is intelligent, charismatic and one of the most established raconteurs around Time Out

It's a tale of slavish fandom, the highs and lows of which are illustrated with dexterity... It's not only cricket fans and journalists who'll appreciate this yarn - it's a tale for lovers in the wider sense, and of the boundaries they'll cross Independent

His tribute to the simple pleasures of fandom is a touching one Guardian

Delightful and full of selfmockery Mail on Sunday

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