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In Upsydown: Cartoons of Dorset Life, artist and caricaturist Lyndon Wall has selected over ninety of his favourite cartoons of the humorous side of life in Dorset. This book is a timely celebration of everyday life in this attractive part of the country. Its rural heritage and colourful fairs and festivals rightfully provide the inspiration for many scenes in the book, but we also encounter local celebrities and politicians, strange and newsworthy events, Dorset’s past history and the onward march of so-called progress. All those who know and love this corner of the world will find this book delights and amuses.

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‘If you laugh at a cartoon of yourself, it says a lot about the perception and the kindness of the artist.’ -- Julian Fellowes ‘Mr Wall provides jollity in a grim modern world. More power to his pen!’ -- Sir Brian May

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Lyndon Wall is a Dorset-based artist specialising in political and local interest cartoons and caricatures. He is the weekly cartoonist for the New Blackmore Vale and New Stour & Avon magazines and a contributor to such publications as The Dorset Year Book, Dorset Life and the West Dorset Magazine. He also produces political cartoons for the House of Commons magazine The Lobby.

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