A YEAR AT ST YORICKS

The Anglican parish magazine, largely by-passed by the recent revolution in communications technology, is something of a neglected art form, despite the fact that these volumes of local news and views must have been read by millions of readers every week for years and years.

Adrian Plass remedies this deficiency by collecting together a whole year's worth of 'The Skull', a church magazine produced for the benefit of the good people of St Yoricks. Readers may have considerable difficulty in locating this very ordinary little village on the map, but the extraordinarily normal characters and events that appear in these twelve monthly editions of 'The Skull' will be instantly and hilariously recognisable to most of us.

In A Year At St Yoricks, Adrian Plass, an Anglican himself, explores the intriguing world of parish life with typical humour and compassion.