The Newsagent's Window: Adventures in a World of Second-Hand Cars and Lost Cats Book

'I had met a lot of special people through newsagents' windows and spent many enjoyable days with them. I found out about a community I never knew existed the heart of rural Britain. I learned that everyone had a story to tell and that people who live very ordinary lives are much more fascinating than explorers or pop stars.' John Osborne's second book is a comic voyage through small-town Britain via the ads in newsagents' windows: lost kittens personal ads a second-hand bike for sale yoga classes ...John at first uses the ads in newsagents' windows to buy practical things like a bed and a settee. But on impulse one day he replies to an advert for a psychic masseur named Lucy who tells him some startling home-truths as he sits on her settee in his pants. So begins a year of self-discovery and a wild obsession with newsagents' windows which take John to a shoe-exhibition to an Alan Ayckbourn play to a wrestling match. He finds himself the owner of a man's entire video collection a second-hand bike a clapped-out Ford Escort - and discovers a community of a bygone age. Looking to improve his German he meets a pretty German girl named Leni ...Hilarious and thought-provoking The Newsagent's Window restores our faith - in our fellow human beings in a world without ebay - and reveals the odd things that can happen if you let newsagents' windows dictate your day.