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Haywire: The Best of Craig Brown

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by Craig Brown
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Availability:In StockContributor:Craig BrownPublish date:2024-01-09Pages:560
Language:EnglishPublisher:Fourth EstateISBN-13:9780008557485ISBN-10:8557489UPC:9780008557485Book Category:HumorBook Subcategory:Form, TopicBook Topic:Essays, Parodies, Celebrity & Popular CultureSize:7.50 x 5.10 x 2.10 inchesWeight:0.8003Product ID:SCYZHPTY6R

'Our greatest living satirist' Sunday Times

'The most screamingly funny living writer' Mail on Sunday

From the bestselling and award-winning author of Ma'am Darling and One Two Three Four, a selection of Craig Brown's finest writing collected together for the first time.

Haywire presents a survival guide to the 21st century.

The acclaimed biographer of Princess Margaret and The Beatles considers such diverse topics as gloves, outer space, the Marx Brothers, Richard Dawkins, Hitler's hair, John Stonehouse, Katie Price, tongue-twisters, Bruce Springsteen, Harry and Meghan, Stanley Spencer, Brian Epstein, Downton Abbey, Sigmund Freud and Karl Lagerfeld's cat.

With the full battery of the humourist's armoury - clerihews, tongue twisters, whimsy, parody, farce, satire, social observation, nonsense - Brown skewers the fads and delusions of the contemporary world.

Language:EnglishPublisher:Fourth EstateISBN-13:9780008557485ISBN-10:8557489UPC:9780008557485Book Category:HumorBook Subcategory:Form, TopicBook Topic:Essays, Parodies, Celebrity & Popular CultureSize:7.50 x 5.10 x 2.10 inchesWeight:0.8003Product ID:SCYZHPTY6R

Craig Brown's last book, One Two Three Four: The Beatles in Time won the 2020 Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction. His previous book, Ma'am Darling: 99 Glimpses of Princess Margaret won the James Tait Black Prize for Biography and the South Bank Sky Arts Award for Literature, and was also a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in the US. His first article appeared in the New Statesman in 1978. Since then, he has written for many newspapers and magazines, including the Guardian, the Daily Mail, the New York Times and the Spectator. He has been writing the parodic celebrity diary for Private Eye for over thirty years. He lives in Aldeburgh, Suffolk with his wife Frances Welch; they have two children and a grandchild.


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