The Complete Henry Root Letters

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This book is a compendium of actual letters which the author wrote to all kinds of people of note - all from his persona of some kind of hard core petite bourgeoise British citizen. M Godding Books Ltd is an internet book business running from Wiltshire and sending books all over the world every working day. Liz Reed - another character created by William Donaldson, Reed's TV production pitches - for shows such as 'Disabled Gladiators' and 'Anglotrash' - in the guise of Heart Felt Productions were collected in the 1998 book, The Heart Felt Letters. Or saying that Henry Root Junior thought Cliff Richard was working behind the makeup counter at Boots makes me think, but for "Congratulations" go he. The letters aren’t really dated, with the exception of certain BBC television stars and the one to the South African Ambassador.

He established himself as a central player in the British satire boom of the early 1960s, as co-producer, with Donald Albery, of Beyond the Fringe (1960), and of dramatisations of J. Henry Root, who made a fortune in wet fish, spent ten years in correspondence with powerful and famous people across Britain. By the way , reading the Private Eye magazine I can't help comparing it's "styles" with those incredible originals scripts, written by Henry Moor.

Donaldson lived at 139 Elm Park Mansions on Park Walk, Chelsea, London SW10, from which address all the Root letters were sent. The letters were published as The Henry Root Letters and The Further Letters of Henry Root and a compilation volume, The Complete Henry Root Letters. He completed his National Service in the Royal Navy in the late 1950s, reaching the rank of Sub-Lieutenant.

Jean Rook's reply "I am certainly not a thinking man's Anna Raeburn, so you must solve your own problems. Root first came to my attention more years ago than I care to admit when I was in Denmark and saw the televised version of Root into Europe.The phenomenal success of the Henry Root books, especially the first, enabled Donaldson to resume his earlier chaotic lifestyle, and in the mid-1980s he began using crack cocaine. This time around Root has written an appalling soap opera about the decline of moral standards in modern Britain and put together a new volume crammed with letters to famous actors, directors and other worthies up and down the land.