{"product_id":"penguins-stopped-play","title":"Penguins Stopped Play","description":"''Completely brilliant'' Ian Hislop\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIt seemed a simple enough idea at the outset: to assemble a team of eleven men to play cricket on each of the seven continents of the globe. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eExcept - hold on a minute - that''s not a simple idea at all. And when you throw in incompetent airline officials, amorous Argentine Colonels'' wives, cunning Bajan drug dealers, gay Australian waiters, overzealous American anti-terrorist police, idiot Welshmen dressed as Santa Claus, Archbishop Desmond Tutu and whole armies of pitch-invading Antarctic penguins, you quickly arrive at a whole lot more than you bargained for.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHarry Thompson''s hilarious book tells the story of one of those great idiotic enterprises that only an Englishman could have dreamed up, and only a bunch of Englishmen could possibly have wished to carry out.","brand":"John Murray Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57586326602063,"sku":"9780719563461","price":21.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.suomalainen.com\/products\/penguins-stopped-play","provider":"Suomalainen.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}