Things Can Only Get Worse?

Hilarious, insightful and has that rare quality of making politics fun. A brilliant book everyone should read, whoever you vote for. – Owen Jones, author of The EstablishmentEven Conservatives will like this – Roland White * The Sunday Times *Reading this book is like reliving the last twenty years as a Labour supporter. John O’Farrell has, in his own unique and hilarious way, captured the highs and lows, pride and embarrassment, joy and frustration of being Labour. – Sadiq Khan, Mayor of LondonO’Farrell hasn’t lost his touch. There are laughs as well as large doses of common sense. – Chris Mullin * Guardian *John O’Farrell couldn’t be unfunny if he tried but this book is even better than his famous take on Labour’s 18 years in opposition. Hilarious and insightful in equal measure this is vintage stuff from Maidenhead’s finest political brain. – Alan JohnsonA glimpse at the quirky, inner workings of the British political system written by someone who seems too funny, too kind and too bloody sensible to ever seriously consider a career in politics. – Jo BrandHugely enjoyable, timely and funny. Given that it’s about politics, this is an impressively sane book. Hooray for John O’ Farrell. – Robert Webb

John O’Farrell’s first book Things Can Only Get Better about his years spent helping the Labour Party lose elections at every level was a number one best-seller. Two decades later he published the sequel Things Can Only Get Worse. In between his two comic memoirs, he published five novels, including The Best A Man Can Get, May Contain Nuts and The Man Who Forgot His Wife; two funny history books (An Utterly Impartial History of Britain and its sequel) plus three collections of his satirical columns from The Guardian.

His books have been translated into over thirty languages and adapted for TV and radio. Formerly a comedy scriptwriter for shows such as Spitting Image and Have I Got News For You, he more recently co-wrote the movie Chicken Run 2, the Broadway musicals Something Rotten! and Mrs Doubtfire and the forthcoming Just For One Day - The Story of Live Aid, which opens at the Old Vic in 2024.