Our greatest living satirist Sunday TimesThe most screamingly funny living writer Mail on SundayFrom 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.
Haywire presents a survival guide to the 21st century. The acclaimed biographer of Princess Margaret and The Beatles considers such diverse topics as gloves, outer space, the Marx Brothers, Richard Dawkins, Hitlers hair, John Stonehouse, Katie Price, tongue-twisters, Bruce Springsteen, Harry and Meghan, Stanley Spencer, Brian Epstein, Downton Abbey, Sigmund Freud and Karl Lagerfelds cat. 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.
