Haywire

The Best of Craig Brown

Haywire
Craig Brown
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NZ$ 39.99
Paperback
h234 x 153mm - 560pg
13 Oct 2022 UK
International import eta 7-19 days
9780008557454
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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. ' The most screamingly funny living writer' Barry Humphries, Mail on Sunday Mixing parody, literary criticism, profiles, satire, light verse, anagrams, AND social observation, Haywire gathers together the finest examples of Craig Brown' s writing across the past fifteen years. From Mary Berry' s Household Tips to Robert Macfarlane' s poetic prose, from profiles of such diverse figures as Sigmund Freud, John Stonehouse and Katie Price to parodies of Jacob Rees-Mogg and Mary Beard, and from appreciations of the Marx Brothers and Les Dawson to essays on Brian Epstein and the slippery art of biography, Haywire contains a bumper selection of work by the writer described by The Sunday Times as "our greatest living satirist". It features pieces drawn from publications as diverse as Private Eye, The Oldie, the New Statesman, Readers' Digest, The New York Review of Books, Vanity Fair and the Daily Mail.
' The most screamingly funny living writer' Barry Humphries, Mail on Sunday' The greatest satirist since Max Beerbohm' Elaine Showalter Guardian' Craig Brown' s humour will outlive his victims. His journalism is one of the few compensations for being British now' David Sexton, Sunday Telegraph' A genius . . . in every instance, the skill of the parodist dwarfs any achievement attributable to his subject' Auberon Waugh, Daily Telegraph' He is the comic writer the rest of us admire from afar, and envy beyond the bounds of reason. How does he do it? ' Markus Berkmann, Spectator' Britain' s wittiest satirist' The Times' [Craig Brown] has an acutely attuned comic ear, an unmatched eye for spotting the absurdities of human behaviour and a bloodhound-grade nose for sniffing out phoniness and pretension' Mail On Sunday
Craig Brown has been writing the Private Eye celebrity diary since 1989. He has also written parodies for many other publications, including The Daily Telegraph, Vanity Fair, The Times and The Guardian. He is the author of several books, most recently ' The Lost Diaries' and ' One on One' .
Status: Active
ISBN-13: 9780008557454
Published: 13 Oct 2022
Published In: United Kingdom
Imprint: Fourth Estate
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Format: Paperback
Height: 234mm
Width: 153mm
Spine: 35mm
Weight: 270g
Pages: 560

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