{"product_id":"haywire-the-best-of-craig-brown-paperback","title":"Haywire: The Best of Craig Brown - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eCraig Brown\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'Our greatest living satirist' \u003cem\u003eSunday Times \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'The most screamingly funny living writer' \u003cem\u003eMail on Sunday \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFrom the bestselling and award-winning author of \u003cem\u003eMa'am Darling\u003c\/em\u003e and\u003cem\u003e One Two Three Four\u003c\/em\u003e, a selection of Craig Brown's finest writing collected together for the first time.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eHaywire\u003c\/em\u003e presents a survival guide to the 21st century.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWith 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCraig Brown's last book, \u003cem\u003eOne Two Three Four: The Beatles in Time\u003c\/em\u003e won the 2020 Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction. His previous book, \u003cem\u003eMa'am Darling: 99 Glimpses of Princess Margaret\u003c\/em\u003e 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 \u003cem\u003eNew Statesman\u003c\/em\u003e in 1978. Since then, he has written for many newspapers and magazines, including the \u003cem\u003eGuardian\u003c\/em\u003e, the \u003cem\u003eDaily Mail\u003c\/em\u003e, the \u003cem\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/em\u003e and the \u003cem\u003eSpectator\u003c\/em\u003e. He has been writing the parodic celebrity diary for \u003cem\u003ePrivate Eye\u003c\/em\u003e for over thirty years. He lives in Aldeburgh, Suffolk with his wife Frances Welch; they have two children and a grandchild.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 560\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 2.1 x 7.5 x 5.1 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e January 09, 2024\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42153075572871,"sku":"9780008557485","price":24.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0601\/2623\/2711\/files\/050e731f8afada574255105181751065.webp?v=1733218789","url":"https:\/\/booksby.splitshops.com\/products\/haywire-the-best-of-craig-brown-paperback","provider":"Books by splitShops","version":"1.0","type":"link"}