The Perfect Fool - November 2001 The Sunday Times - By TL - November 1st, 2001

Transvestites, loud guests and Jerry Springer make for unusual opera - October 2001 The Detroit News - By Juliana Koranteng - October 10th, 2001

Opera aficionados beware. A new figure has entered the landscape of music’s most refined genre, and he brings with him the stories of trailer park tragedy and welfare woe. Yes, none other than Jerry Springer — the former Cincinnati mayor who hosts a self-titled talk show on which buxom women exchange violent blows over men…

The Perfect Fool ★★★★ - October 2001 SFX - By Simon Withers - October 1st, 2001

Jerry Springer: The Opera - September 2001 Hot Courses - September 7th, 2001

Impenetrable - September 2001 A reader from Notts - September 7th, 2001

This was a rather disappointing read, pretentiously punctuated with snatches of old native American legend which seemed to carry little relevance or resonance for the jumbled up mish mash of tales in the rest of the novel. A motley assortment of characters are drawn to the same part of the USA in a not-very-interesting way,…

Astounding debut from Britain’s finest stand-up! ★★★★★ - September 2001 Iain Cooper from Peterborough - By Iain Cooper - September 6th, 2001

Well, what can I say? I bought this book a couple of months ago, for when I went on holiday. Being an immense fan of Lee, I found it incredibly hard to resist taking a look at it until then! But it was lucky that I did, because from the second I started reading I…