Pistache

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<p><b>pistache</b>(pis-tash): a friendly spoof or parody of another's work. [Deriv uncertain. Possibly a cross between pastiche and p**stake.]</p><p>From Thomas Hardy's football report to Dan Brown's visit to the cash dispenser, the work of the great and the not-so-great is here sent up with little hope of coming down.</p><p>Most of these pieces began their life on Radio Four's<i>The Write Stuff</i>, but have been retooled for the printed page. Others, such as Martin Amis's first day at Hogwarts, have been written specially for this collection.</p><p>Philip Larkin's<i>Lines in Celebration of the Queen Mother's 115th Birthday</i>, first banned, then cut by the BBC, appears in its entirety for the first time.</p><p>This is not a book for the faint-hearted or the downstairs lavatory. It is a book for the bedside table of someone you cannot live without.</p>

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Sebastian Faulks was born in April 1953. Before becoming a full-time writer in 1991, he worked as a journalist. Sebastian Faulkss books include<i>A Possible Life</i>,<i>Human Traces</i>,<i>On Green Dolphin Street</i>,<i>Engleby</i>,<i>Birdsong,</i><i>A Week in December and Where My Heart Used to Beat.</i>

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