It's a Jungle Out There: A Lipman-agerie

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A wry and witty look at celebrity life through the febrile imagination of one of our most celebrated and best-loved actors.

This sumptuously illustrated book from actress and author Maureen Lipman presents a dizzying array of celebrity/animal paranomasia, Greek for 'mash-up'. All created with the aid of a fertile mind, a keen sense of humour and, oh yes, her trusty iPad. Here you will meet Brad Pitbull and Ange-lemur Jolie; Johnny Deppard and Jake Gorillanhall; Lu-seal Ball and Andy Warthog; Joan Crow-ford and Vanessie Redgrave, among many others. The idea for this book came from Lipman's doodle of a steer in a dinner jacket, to which she gave a green carnation and named Oscar Wildebeest. After this breakthrough moment, Maureen became obsessive, boring friends and family with her latest creation. When she woke at 3 a.m. and said out loud, 'Tuna Stubbs!', the die was cast. A book was born.

Author Bio

Maureen Lipman - writer, actress, pundit and now iPad artist - is in her fiftieth year as an irrationaltreasure. Her nine much-loved books, from How Was lt for You to l Must Collect Myself, now give way to this mischievous collection of paintings of the big game in big names.Lipman writes regularly for, among others, Standpoint magazine and Spectator Health. She has two writer kids, two crayoning grandkids, a dog, a courtyard garden and an addiction to her tablets.