{"product_id":"haywire-the-best-of-craig-brown-9780008557485","title":"Haywire: The Best of Craig Brown","description":"\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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\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\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Fourth Estate","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50394704347410,"sku":"9780008557485","price":17.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_09564a0d-bc2e-41cb-a8f7-6c28ec0d3332.jpg?v=1729014307","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/haywire-the-best-of-craig-brown-9780008557485","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}