{"product_id":"9780008557485","title":"Haywire : The Best of Craig Brown","description":"\u003ch3\u003eAuthor: Craig Brown\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003ch4\u003e21st century\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003ch5\u003ePublished on 8 June 2023 by HarperCollins Publishers (Fourth Estate Ltd) in the United Kingdom.\u003c\/h5\u003e\u003ch4\u003ePaperback | 560 pages\u003cbr\u003e128 x 198 x 42mm | 376g\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003chr\u003e\u003cp\u003e‘Our greatest living satirist’ Sunday Times\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e  ‘The most screamingly funny living writer’ Mail on Sunday\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e  From the bestselling and award-winning author of Ma'am Darling and One Two Three Four, a selection of Craig Brown's finest writing collected together for the first time.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e  Haywire presents a survival guide to the 21st century.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e  The 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\u003e With 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","brand":"Craig Brown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57391066677573,"sku":"9780008557485","price":10.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0994\/3721\/6069\/files\/9780008557485.jpg?v=1773516864","url":"https:\/\/stripyduckbookshopcafe.co.uk\/products\/9780008557485","provider":"The Stripy Duck Bookshop Café","version":"1.0","type":"link"}