A Write Carry On - Readers Invited To Appear In New Carry On Book!

Some musicians ask their fanbase to financially contribute towards the making of an album in return for a mere mention on the sleeve. Not much of a payback, we say!

So here’s a better offer. We are offering you, the reader, the chance to get your name and anecdote in a forthcoming book to be published, in 2012, by the good people at Wholepoint Publications.

The book, A Write Carry On (The Untold Story Of A Man In The Shadows), is a fictional tale of a memoir from the pen of one of the ‘great unsung heroes of British comedy writing.’ Talbot ’Tolly’ Rothwell was responsible for screenwriting twenty Carry On films, as well as writing scripts for The Crazy Gang, Arthur Askey, Ted Ray and Terry-Thomas.

We are looking for anecdotes or memories for all things Carry On. Did you meet or know any of the cast? Maybe, like me, attended filming? Or have an interesting tale to tell about what the Carry Ons mean to you? In fact, anything Carry On related.

If you do them send them to: editor@brighton.co.uk and the most interesting will get both their name and anecdote included in all ebook copies of 'A Write Carry On (The Untold Story Of A Man In The Shadows)'.

A Write Carry On - The Untold Story Of A Man In The Shadows

Coming 2012

Author: Mike Cobley

Publisher: Wholepoint Publications

‘The spine of the book lists his name. The title looks familiar. Even the dust jacket speaks of ideas that had once come so easily to him. But here, in this now unfamiliar room, his past belongs to another and the present holds few clues to his self. Fear takes a grip.’ ('A Write Carry On')

This was the moment when one of the great unsung heroes of British comedy writing knew the game was up. Having been responsible for a rollercoaster half-decade of screenwriting twenty Carry On films, as well as Up Pompeii and The Crazy Gang, Talbot ’Tolly’ Rothwell could no longer recognise the keys on his typewriter. His past had caught up with him.

Talbot went on to receive an OBE - yet still managed to be 'A Man In The Shadows’.

This forthcoming book will form a fictional account of what might have happened if Talbot Rothwell had sat down at his typewriter one last time and catalogued, via a work of fiction, his extraordinary life and the amazingly talented people he came into contact with.

With the likes of Kenneth Williams, Sid James, Frankie Howerd, Hattie Jacques et al, this gripping tale will take the reader deep into the complex characters who have, even after their passing, become a mainstay of British comedy.

‘A Write Carry On’ will also take you behind enemy lines during the Second World War, when Talbot was incarcerated in the notorious Stalag Luft III. There he teamed up with Peter Butterworth to produce camp concerts which aided tunnelling escape efforts.

"Infamy! Infamy! They've all got it in for me!" 'A Write Carry On' coming soon!