This Is Craig Brown
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Ebury Publishing
Published:19th Feb '04
Currently unavailable, and unfortunately no date known when it will be back
The critically acclaimed 'best of' humorist Craig Brown - 20 years of satirical pieces and essays on British life
Craig Brown (no not the Scottish football manager) is the funniest, the most revered and the most prolific humorist we have. This collection of parody, satire, whimsy and wit, includes extracts and articles from Private Eye, The Daily Telegraph, The Guardian, The Independent, Vanity Fair, The Mail on Sunday, The Spectator and many more.Craig Brown (no not the Scottish football manager) is the funniest, the most revered and the most prolific humorist we have. This book collects together for the first time the best of his wit from the vast archive of his work spanning the last twenty years, teaming it with brand new material. This collection of parody, satire, whimsy and wit, includes extracts and articles from Private Eye, The Daily Telegraph, The Guardian, The Independent, Vanity Fair, The Mail on Sunday, The Spectator and many more. They capture the essence of British life - he is as funny on soaps, Posh Spice and Tony Blackburn as he is on Art and Politics.
Nobody does prose parody and media satire better * The Independent *
Consistently funny and always beautifully written * The Observer *
Every page is gold...genius * Boris Johnson, Mail on Sunday *
A brilliant, subversive collection * London Evening Standard *
If there were a Paradist Laureate, (Brown) would step up unchallenged to the title * The Observer *
ISBN: 9780091896065
Dimensions: 198mm x 126mm x 31mm
Weight: 344g
512 pages