Theirs is a hit-or-miss book, with as many misses as hits, yet those hits are indeed entertaining. I particularly enjoy Unalphabetized Dictionary (although even an alphabetized dictionary may be unpublishable now), Thatcher in the Rye (the cover showing an image of Margaret Thatcher on a slice of rye toast) and Rhetorical Questions Answered. The latter proposed book includes a couple of sample pages that are good fun.
Sometimes Johnson and Hibbert provide an imagined publisher's reason for rejecting a book proposal. In the case of Holy Bible II the comment is: "All of the authors from the first book are dead."
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