'A Year At St Yorick's' will do for the Church of England what the Sacred Diary of Adrian Plass did for charismatic Christians.

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 pungently English home-spun volumes of local news and views must have been read, or at least skimmed, by millions of readers every week for years and years.

Adrian Plass goes some way towards remedying 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. Yorick's, Gently Down.

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 recognizable to most of us.

In A Year At St. Yorick's Adrian Plass, an Anglican himself, explores the intriging world of parish life with typically serious humour and compassion. From struggling obituaries and blinkered book reviews to subtly vindictive reports on Ladies' Circle meetings, here is a must for students and conniosseurs of that most fascinating study of all - real life.