The Spectator Book of Wit, Humour and Mischief - Hardcover

Berkmann, Marcus

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1408707438 ISBN 13: 9781408707432

Publisher: Little, Brown, 2016

Synopsis

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 of consciousness of Deborah Ross's restaurant reviews, the pinpoint etiquette advice of Mary Killen, Rod Liddle's frothing but elegantly sculpted outrage and the magazine's secret weapon, low life adventurer Jeremy Clarke. This bumper selection, which also includes eminent diarists, mad letter-writers and Boris Johnson, amounts to a masterclass in comic writing, lovingly compiled and edited by Marcus Berkmann, who still can't believe he wrote a monthly pop column for the magazine for twenty-eight years without being fired.

About this title

Review:

A treasure trove to mine for one's own conversational repertoire (Mary Killen)

This gloriously entertaining volume draws together the wittiest writing from the Spectator magazine from 1990 to 2014 (Daily Mail)

Book Description:

The Spectator Book of Wit, Humour and Mischief collects some of the magazine's drollest contributions of the past twenty-five years, bringing a sharp eye to bear on the strangenesses of modern life.

About this edition

• Publisher: Little, Brown
• Publication date: 2016
• ISBN 10: 1408707438
• ISBN 13: 9781408707432
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 480