A personal account of a Labour supporter's miserable eighteen years under a Tory government. A literary debut which combines wit with barbed insight from the author who has been a full time comedy writer since the voters of Battersea sacked him from his previous job as an MP's researcher for the Hou[...]
Lots of husbands forget things: they forget that their wife had an important meeting that morning; they forget to pick up the dry cleaning; some of them even forget their wedding anniversary. But Vaughan has forgotten he even has a wife. Her name, her face, their history together, everything she has[...]
Wandering around a busy railway station, a confused man realises he has suffered a total memory loss. When he is eventually rescued, he is told that his breakdown has probably been triggered by his marital problems. But then he comes face to face with the stranger he is supposed to be divorcing, and[...]
Alice never imagined that she would end up like this. Is she the only mother who feels so permanently panic-stricken at the terrors of the modern world - or is it normal to sit up in bed all night popping bubble wrap? She worries that too much gluten and dairy may be hindering her children's mental [...]
Lots of husbands forget things: they forget that their wife had an important meeting that morning; they forget to pick up the dry cleaning; some of them even forget their wedding anniversary. But Vaughan has forgotten he even has a wife. Her name, her face, their history together, everything she has[...]
Presents a collection of the author's popular "Guardian" columns - the final part of the trilogy in which he discovers that Margaret Thatcher is actually his mother. This work also contains satirical essays on subjects as diverse as Man's ascent from the apes and the re-election of George W Bush.[...]
Examines how England's peculiar class system was established by some snobby French nobles whose posh descendents still have wine cellars and second homes in the Dordogne. This title explores the complex socio-economic reasons why Britain's kings were the first in Europe to be brought to heel. It is [...]
Informs and elucidates the bizarre events, ridiculous characters and stupid decisions that have shaped Britain's story since 1945.[...]
Michael Adams shares a flat with three other men in their late twenties. Days are spent lying in bed, playing computer games and occasionally doing a bit of work. And then, when he feels like it, he crosses the river and goes back to his unsuspecting wife and children.[...]
Just as "bogus doctors" are occasionally discovered in hospitals, Jimmy Conway has become a "bogus celebrity"; winning an award for something he never did, being photographed in "Hello!" in someone else's house, and ultimately making a fool of the entire mad, shallow celebrity merry-go-round.[...]
John O'Farrell, author of The Man Who Forgot His Wife, An Utterly Impartial History of Britain and Things Can Only Get Better, turns his comedic genius to the problem of capitalism, encapsulated in a Tube train full of passengers stuck underground - part of a series of twelve books tied to the twelv[...]
Många äkta män glömmer saker: de glömmer att deras fru hade ett viktigt möte samma morgon, de glömmer att köpa mjölk, en del glömmer sin bröllopsdag. Men Vaughan har glömt att han ens har en fru. Vad hon heter, hur hon ser ut, deras gemensamma historia allt är utraderat i en katastrofal[...]
Många äkta män glömmer saker: de glömmer att deras fru hade ett viktigt möte samma morgon, de glömmer att köpa mjölk, en del glömmer till och med sin bröllopsdag.Men Vaughan har glömt att han ens har en fru. Vad hon heter, hur hon ser ut, deras gemensamma historia â allt är utrader[...]
Många äkta män glömmer saker: de glömmer att deras fru hade ett viktigt möte samma morgon, de glömmer att köpa mjölk, en del glömmer till och med sin bröllopsdag. Men Vaughan har glömt att han ens har en fru. Vad hon heter, hur hon ser ut, deras gemensamma historia allt är utraderat i [...]
The more Alice and Peter push their children, the more things there are to worry about. It's only when Alice disguises herself as her daughter in order to take a school entrance exam that she realizes the exhausting pressures the kids have been under.[...]
Shows you how Anglo-Saxon liberals struggled to be positive about immigration; 'Look I think we have to try and respect the religious customs of our new Viking friends - oi, he's nicked my bloody ox!' This audiobook is about then that is also incisive and illuminating about now. It is a journey thro[...]
A history of modern Britain that informs, elucidates and laughs at the various bizarre events, ridiculous characters and stupid decisions that have shaped Britain's story since 1945.[...]