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Haywire: The Best of Craig Brown

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By (author): Craig Brown

'The most screamingly funny living writer' Barry Humphries, 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.

What is James Bond's middle name?

How does Jacob Rees-Mogg's nanny set about cleaning him up in the morning?

When did Piers Morgan introduce his special guest Kim Jong-Un as the straight-talking boy from North Korea who grew up to become a global superstar?

All these important questions, and a great many more, are answered in Craig Brown's Haywire.

Featuring handy household tips from Mary Berry (When eating a boiled egg be careful to remove the shell first, or it can be a little crunchy) and historic admissions from Queen Elizabeth 1st to Oprah Winfrey concerning her mother's beheading (Thank you for having the courage to share that with us), Haywire presents a survival guide to the 21st century.

In one chapter, Brown writes about the influence of Blackpool on Sigmund Freud and Les Dawson. In another, he unearths the Historical Online Archive and discovers that the invention of the wheel in Mesopotamia in 4000 BC drew fierce criticism on social media. My mate tried it, says it's total rubbish wrote Brian from Sumeria.

The acclaimed biographer of Princess Margaret and The Beatles delivers essays on such diverse figures as Ronald Searle, John Stonehouse, Bruce Springsteen, Richard Dawkins, Katie Price, Stanley Spencer, Harry and Meghan, Brian Epstein, Kenneth Williams, Ronald Reagan, Simon Dee and the Marx Brothers.

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

Our greatest living satirist Sunday Times

Exquisitely naughty and hilarious Guardian

Craig Browns humour will outlive his victims his journalism is one of the few compensations for being British now Sunday Telegraph

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Product Details
  • Weight: 810g
  • Dimensions: 159 x 240mm
  • Publication Date: 13 Oct 2022
  • Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
  • Publication City/Country: United Kingdom
  • Language: English
  • ISBN13: 9780008557447

About Craig Brown

Craig Browns last book One Two Three Four: The Beatles in Time won the 2020 Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction. His previous book Maam 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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