Publisher withdraws ‘River Kwai’ diet book

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‘Skinhead Dickens’ diesJames Moffat, the Canadian ‘pulp’ author dubbed ‘the skinhead Dickens’, died on this day in 1993.

The River Kwai Diet was a short-lived fad that achieved notoriety when public opinion forced a leading publisher to pulp all copies of a book based upon it. Read on...

Alec Guinness in The Bridge on the River Kwai