Salon.com > Joseph Gallivan http://www.salon.com Wed, 30 May 2012 10:39:24 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Joseph Gallivan http://www.salon.com/2000/10/05/gallivan/ http://www.salon.com/2000/10/05/gallivan/#comments Thu, 05 Oct 2000 07:00:00 +0000 http://www.salon.com/audio/2000/10/05/gallivan Born in Birmingham, England, in 1964, Joseph Gallivan studied English at Oxford University, and now works as a journalist, dividing his time between London and New York. "England All Over" (Sceptre, March 16th 2000) is his second novel. It is a comedy about an ordinary middle class Geography teacher who, through the awful daring of a moment's surrender, has lost it all - wife, job, home - and must begin a new career as a tour guide.

To his horror Clive finds himself working with an incompetent aristocrat and a lager swilling Jack the Lad, each as corrupt as the other, but with the help of Rose, their young coach driver, they get their company up and running. The action takes place over a single hot summer in England, as Albion Tours takes on Stone Henge, Blackpool and even Princess Diana's grave.

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