Inside, there are features on many different characters. Tubbs narrates the book, circling every occurence of 'local'; Pauline, with her usual esteem-building attitude, includes her guide to getting a job; and Bernice, the ever-sympathetic vicar, plays agony aunt on the Royston Vasey Chronicle's problem page.

However, much of the material seems to have been plucked from the scripts and reworded to fit the newpaper/magazine/letter genre wherever appropriate. This made a lot of the jokes very obvious, and having already decided that the gents themselves are geniuses, I was a little disappointed that they didn't take a different approach.

Having said that, fans of the show will find plenty of little gems in here. A roll of film's worth of Stella caught with her trousers down - metaphorically speaking, of course... Henry and Ally's guide to finding the right video and Royston Vasey's Missing Persons file (unsurprisingly lengthy).

Definitely a book for League of Gentlemen enthusiasts.

There's LOTS For You Here!!
Review date: 2002-01-06 Rating: 10 out of 10

If you understood WHY Chris Morris and Brass Eye were funny, then the League Of Gentlemen will appeal to you.

The show itself is an absolute breath of fresh air for British comedy: dark, macabre, twisted, a cruelly accurate portrait of life in smal-town Northern England, utterly sick, and essentially, asthma-attack-inducingly-funny.
One of the very best things to grace our screens in the name of comedy EVER, and an honour to be local to it's setting and the areas that inspired it.

Even if you have never seen a single episode of the League Of Gentlemen, as long as you can be amused by very dark comedy, this book will strike a chord with you. Many books of comedy series' don't work. Ali G's book is not very good (then, his show isn't a patch on LoG). This book is.

And I think that is because at the very core of The League Of Gentlemen, as a tv show, is a quartet of four fantastically talented writers. And this...transcription...it works. Their writing works on telly. It works in a book. It would WORK if it were scrawled across the wall of a public toilet.

And if you HAVE seen the television series', then this book will be a REAL GOOD TREAT FOR YOU (MMMM!). A collection of all the very best bits - a whole section for Herr Lipp, a guide to the local caves, Hilary's Confession, Dr Chinnery's Curse, "On The Job With Pauline Campbell Jones" and MickeyLove.......and the whole thing narrated by our romantic heroine, Tubbs.

The book is an absolute must for all fans, or else I don't think you should be allowed to deem yourselves "local"!
And still strongly recommended to anyone not familiar to the show. May you now be converted.

Enjoy.

Lizzy

'League Lovers'...
Review date: 2001-12-28 Rating: 10 out of 10

'League Lovers', as we are now collectively known, will treasure this bizarre take on the average coffee table book. Featuring the kind of storyline extensions fans hunger for - a less-than-glamorous photo-shoot of Iris with her knickers down; a Denton family portrait; Pauline's job search lowdown, and not forgetting Tubbs and her Family Trunk - this book is perfect for those who prefer a more grotesque brand of comedy, and favour the freakish over 'Friends' any day.

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