The Spectator Book of Wit, Humour and Mischief
$35.02
- Paperback
480 pages
- Release Date
1 November 2018
Summary
Approaching its 200th birthday in the rudest of health, the Spectator is known for the quality of its writing and the deep eccentricity of some of its writers. Given the freedom to say what they want, they take that freedom and more, and the result is original, provocative, often very funny, sometimes plain wrong.
From Jeffrey Bernard’s reports from the Soho frontline and Auberon Waugh fulminating about hamburger gases in the early 1990s, we encounter in turn the wild stream …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780349143415 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0349143412 |
| Author: | Marcus Berkmann |
| Publisher: | Little, Brown Book Group |
| Imprint: | Abacus |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 480 |
| Release Date: | 1 November 2018 |
| Weight: | 360g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 126mm x 36mm |
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This gloriously entertaining volume draws together the wittiest writing from the Spectator magazine from 1990 to 2014– Daily Mail
A treasure trove to mine for one’s own conversational repertoire – Mary KillenThis gloriously entertaining volume draws together the wittiest writing from the Spectator magazine from 1990 to 2014 * Daily Mail *
About The Author
Marcus Berkmann
Marcus Berkmann has spent more than thirty years sitting in front of various television screens swearing at incompetent England batsmen. In his leisure time he has written columns on sport for Punch, the Independent on Sunday and the Daily Express. He is a regular contributor to Private Eye and film critic of the Oldie, and writes book reviews for the Daily Mail. His books include Rain Men: The Madness of Cricket, Zimmer Men: The Trials and Tribulations of the Ageing Cricketer, Fatherhood: The Truth and A Matter of Facts: The Insider’s Guide to Quizzing.
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