Fred's Electric BudgerigarThe industrialist trying to obtain an Honour for himself; the Earl with a novel tax-avoidance scheme; the retired ladies feuding over the Village Show: all of them, and the rest of the village - not to mention the British Government - are affected, one way or another, by Fred, the elderly inventor and general disaster area. "I wept with laughter over 'Fred's Electric Budgerigar'. It is extremely funny and beautifully done" - Submissions Editor of a leading publisher |
Contents
Chapter Page 1 Freds Electric Budgerigar | 4 |
The Climber | 19 |
Lord Crocketfords Inheritance | 61 |
Fred and the Fraudster | 89 |
Raymonds Romantic Interlude | 135 |
The Majesty of the Law | 179 |
The Contentious Courgette | 203 |
Four Knights and a New Dawn | 242 |
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