RARE BOOKS SEEN TOGETHER BY THE NOTORIOUS LESLIE ROBERTS AND THE FORTUNE PRESS.
"Feathers in the Bed" and " Shepherd Market"
Two Camp Novels by Leslie Roberts
FEATHERS IN THE BED c1943 380 pages
The farcical adventures of an eccentric aristocrat called Rebecca Maelstrom, who has an obsession with feathers. Her stately pile is set in the environs of Maidensmeadow ( declared as in Nottinghamshire) with a near all woman household and local town full of weird worthies, the eccentric and the absurd.
Leslie comments " ..possibly the first book ever to be written in a mortuary..intentionally escapist....a gay carnival of conjecture concerning the identity of the characters"
"A story you will never forget . It sparkles with laughter , mischief , and gay audacity" Horizon 1943 .
SHEPHERD MARKET c1943
Leslie's first novel, also first set in “Maidensmeadow” ( Roberts’ home town of Mansfield, Nottinghamshire, somewhat thinly disguised).
Paul Onion, pushed by his mother ( from aged 10) is set on the road to achieve his ambition to be a great man. After leaving education and his mother’s death he sells up the family home and moves to
Paul and Desiree also appear in "Feathers On the Bed"
The books have shadows of Ronnie Firbank's bizarre folk at their very best and worst and sexually ambiguous.
The only way to grasp Roberts' literary scrambles is to read, enjoy and laugh at the complete tomfoolery of the storylines in both books.
MORE INFORMATION :
CONTACT WILLIAM CROSS, FSA SCOT
A FAN OF LESLIE ROBERTS WHO OWNS THE BOOKS
