A Short History of the Apocalypse by Frankie Boyle - ISBN: 9781399817721
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Your comprehensive, darkly funny guide to surviving the end of the world.

A Short History of the Apocalypse

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    560 pages

  • Release Date

    12 November 2024

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A Short History of the Apocalypse is your comprehensive guide to the challenges presented by Armageddon. Join Frankie Boyle (Saturday Night Swindle; Celebrity Vengeance) and Charlie Skelton (head writer: Ad Naseum; David Suchet’s News Sachet) as they debrief time traveller and bon vivant from the late 21st Century, Alonso Lampe.

Will humanity survive the coming cataclysm? Find out inside, alo…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9781399817721
ISBN-10:1399817728
Author:Frankie Boyle, Charlie Skelton
Publisher:John Murray Press
Imprint:John Murray Publishers Ltd
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:560
Release Date:12 November 2024
Weight:618g
Dimensions:47mm x 198mm x 154mm
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Critics Review

Had me giggling with existential dread for days * Metro *

About The Author

Frankie Boyle

Frankie Boyle

Frankie Boyle is one of the UK’s premier comedians and writers and is the author of three bestselling non-fiction books including My Shit Life So Far, and Work! Consume! Die! Boyle is also known for his shows New World Order (BBC2), Tramadol Nights (Ch4), Frankie Boyle’s Tour of Scotland (BBC2), and his best selling DVD’s and Netflix Special. Frankie also regularly contributes articles for the broadsheet press. He has topped the podcast charts with the first three volumes of his eight volume Promethiad sequence.

Charlie Skelton

Charlie Skelton is a comedy writer and journalist, who was script editor of Frankie Boyle’s New World Order. Generally he writes jokes for TV shows, but sometimes writes for the Guardian, covering the elite Bilderberg Conference since 2009. Back in 2003 he co-wrote a book with Victoria Coren Mitchell, Once More, With Feeling, a book about making a pornographic film in Amsterdam. More recently he organised two academic conferences on comedy and AI, and is preparing for the apocalypse by raising chickens and growing olives. In 2024 he produced 53 litres of olive oil and killed five roosters.

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