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  • Most people know Alexei Sayle from the telly, from The Young Ones, or The Comic Strip Presents ...

    Stalin Ate My Homework by Alexei Sayle - review Ian Sansom 2010

  • Her Majesty, a devourer of tabloids and racing sheets, was especially taken aback by the name of Sayle’s club for swingers.

    William and Kate Christopher Andersen 2011

  • Her Majesty, a devourer of tabloids and racing sheets, was especially taken aback by the name of Sayle’s club for swingers.

    William and Kate Christopher Andersen 2011

  • Which is how Sayle works – with little flashes everywhere, like miniature jokes or surrealist flourishes.

    Stalin Ate My Homework by Alexei Sayle - review Ian Sansom 2010

  • I have no idea where these novelists get their ideas from and assume that any relationship between ASHamed Jews and Jonathan Miller, Alexei Sayle, Stephen Fry and the others who joined Jews for Justice for Palestinians is just one of those weird coincidences.

    Howard Jacobson offers a contrary voice in the arts Nick Cohen 2010

  • Since it began trading in 2008, the store has crammed in more than 500 events, including visits from David Vann, the Wu Ming Foundation, Will Self, Alexei Sayle, Karen Maitland, Mark Billingham, Chris Fowler and Tom Hodgkinson.

    Independent bookshops in London 2011

  • An institution in Liverpool, it remains very busy, hosting regular events with figures such as Alexei Sayle, Tony Benn and Jeanette Winterson.

    Independent bookshops in north-west England 2011

  • Sayle knows that for better and for worse, his parents made him what he is: they are the book's foundations.

    Stalin Ate My Homework by Alexei Sayle - review Ian Sansom 2010

  • The book festival kicks off today, with McCarthy appearing on the opening evening as part of a 17-day programme that highlights the work of Alexei Sayle, Ali Smith and Hari Kunzru.

    This week's new events 2011

  • In the latter part of the book, Sayle goes on to recount his adventures in Paris in 1968 and finally his departure for art school, but Joe and Molly remain the real heroes, with their high ideals and their house full of Soviet trinkets and "folklorique woven things".

    Stalin Ate My Homework by Alexei Sayle - review Ian Sansom 2010

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