Kirjahaku

A novel for everyone who has ever ridden the advertising and marketing roller coaster. Set against the vibrant backdrop of 1980s London - a stark contrast to Mad Men's buttoned down 1960s Madison Avenue - this story plunges us into the crazy world of Grimshaw and Welby, a small agency whose burgeoning creative reputation draws the unwelcome attention of a large French group in the shape of a hostile takeover. Freddy Grimshaw's team of eccentric personalities fight back the only way they know how: creatively. We delve deep into the cut and thrust of agency life, the intricate dance of politics and presentations, the fraught relationships of staff and clients. Where conservative marketeers are cajoled into buying the wild ideas of a gleefully irresponsible creative department. One that spends as much time devising childish antics and non-PC practical jokes as they do outstanding advertisements. Written with an insider's knowledge and eye for detail this is an entertaining insight into an era of advertising that's hard to believe. Unless you were there. 'It's advertising as I knew it. The fun, the mayhem, the excess. You couldn't make it up: or could you' -Philip Putnam.

Living the dream. Stanley Hatherley is a sports-mad, fourteen-year-old London schoolboy. One day, jolted awake by shouting, car horns and beating drums, he realises he is not in his bedroom, but an unfamiliar hotel room. Once again, without warning, he has travelled to a parallel, yet strangely different world of sixty years ago. Here, Stanley's several years older, playing for First Division East End United in their version of the Champion's League. Back home in his everyday world life is no less eventful. He must cope with a tragedy, and other challenges intrude. And he meets the lovely Caty, who bears a striking resemblance to someone he has met before. Where will Stanley travel next? To bat in an Embers Test Match, the other world's Ashes? To run against the World's best in their Olympiad. Then just as he thinks his adventures are over he's catapulted, once again, into his other world. And Stanley's Travels start all over again. Join Stanley for every breathless minute: every goal, run, stride, every drama in his two lives, as it happens.

Living the dream. Stanley Hatherley is a sports-mad, fourteen-year-old London schoolboy. One day, jolted awake by shouting, car horns and beating drums, he realises he is not in his bedroom, but an unfamiliar hotel room. Once again, without warning, he has travelled to a parallel, yet strangely different world of sixty years ago. Here, Stanley's several years older, playing for First Division East End United in their version of the Champion's League. Back home in his everyday world life is no less eventful. He must cope with a tragedy, and other challenges intrude. And he meets the lovely Caty, who bears a striking resemblance to someone he has met before. Where will Stanley travel next? To bat in an Embers Test Match, the other world's Ashes? To run against the World's best in their Olympiad. Then just as he thinks his adventures are over he's catapulted, once again, into his other world. And Stanley's Travels start all over again. Join Stanley for every breathless minute: every goal, run, stride, every drama in his two lives, as it happens.