Gary Dexter

Surprising literary ventures | 3 December 2008

Willy and the Killer Kipper (1981) by Jeffrey Archer

  • Willy and the Killer Kipper(1981)

    Jeffrey Archer

‘It looks to me like Boris the Blue Whale,’ said Rightwayup Bird. ‘I have read all about him. He is one hundred feet long and weighs 150 tons.’

Astonishing prescience for 1981? Willy and the Killer Kipper — like the first of Jeffrey Archer’s two ‘Willy’ books, Willy Visits the Square World (1980) — is full of delights.

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