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The world's first gay, equine, military, epistolary romance. Newly discovered letters written from Wellington's warhorse (Marengo) to Napoleon's warhorse (Copenhagen) and vice versa. Includes extra material not featured in the Radio 4 series, both elements of the letters cut from the final scripts and additional material not featured in the shows at all, including the letters from Marengo to his hygienist and the horse he plays chess with, and the notes between Copenhagen and the annoying dog he has to share a stall with. Initially written as a series of letters between the authors (each choosing a stretch of the Napoleonic wars between them to examine and write into the most recent letter). They were then performed with great success at the Tall Tales evenings in Kilburn until the letters were picked up by the BBC for broadcast in autumn 2011.

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Reviews of the BBC Radio 4 series on which the book is based: 'A triumph of the imagination, of historical fancy and saucy humour.' RADIO TIMES 'Very funny, but also strange enough to have you staring at the radio in places.' GUARDIAN 'Annoyingly addictive.' DAILY TELEGRAPH

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Robert Hudson (Author) Robert Hudson's first novel, The Kilburn Social Club, was published by Jonathan Cape in 2009. With Marie Phillips, he writes the BBC Radio 4 series, Warhorses of Letters. He lives in London.Marie Phillips (Author) Marie Phillips was born in London in 1976. Her first novel, Gods Behaving Badly, was published in 2007. Widely acclaimed, it was translated into over fifteen languages and made into a feature film. She is also the writer, with fellow novelist Robert Hudson, of the BBC Radio 4 series Warhorses of Letters.

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