{"product_id":"haywire-the-best-of-craig-brown-hardcover","title":"Haywire: The Best of Craig Brown - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eCraig Brown\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'The most screamingly funny living writer' Barry Humphries, \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\u003eOne 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\u003eWhat is James Bond's middle name?\u003c\/em\u003e \u003c\/strong\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003cstrong\u003e \u003cem\u003eHow does Jacob Rees-Mogg's nanny set about cleaning him up in the morning?\u003c\/em\u003e \u003c\/strong\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003cstrong\u003e \u003cem\u003eWhen 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\"?\u003c\/em\u003e \u003c\/strong\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003cstrong\u003eAll these important questions, and a great many more, are answered in Craig Brown's \u003cem\u003eHaywire\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFeaturing 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'), \u003cem\u003eHaywire\u003c\/em\u003e presents a survival guide to the 21st century.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe 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.\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 passing fads and delusions of the contemporary world.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003cstrong\u003e'Our greatest living satirist' \u003cem\u003eSunday Times\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003cstrong\u003e'Exquisitely naughty and hilarious' \u003cem\u003eGuardian\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003cstrong\u003e'Craig Brown's humour will outlive his victims ... his journalism is one of the few compensations for being British now' \u003cem\u003eSunday Telegraph\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e \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. 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