ABC BOGUS BOOKS COMPLAINT

An irritating aspect of Jennifer Byrne's First Tuesday Book Club on TV is the obvious phoney backdrop of bookshelves with fake books , no title visible on the spine of any "volume". We all know the ABC is short of folding stuff, but surely it can arrange for Bob the Builder to knock up a real bookshelf in play school or romper room ? And all those REAL review copies that flood in to Aunty would soon fill the shelving. The set designer should be taken out and either pulped or burnt by men in brown shirts.

The ABC standards/ ethics / modesty department should also provide the leg tossing Jennifer with a mother hubbard to cover up her distracting gams . This viewer recently saw, for the first time , the BLOCK BUSTERS AND BEST SELLERS show in which Byrne’s guests were Di Morrissey, Lee Child , Matthew Reilly and Bryce Courtenay. It was hard to concentrate on their profound advice about writing , publishing and marketing , especially on how to sell a million , when the host , in a short skirt, crossed and uncrossed her legs, revealing what seemed to this pop-eyed viewer, due to deteriorating eyesight and other enfeeblements, an embossed colophon or a tattooed frontispiece .