Littlejohn's Britain (English, Paperback, Littlejohn Richard)

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Littlejohn Richard

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Language: English
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Cornerstone
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9780099509448, 009950944X
Edition: New Ed, 2007
Pages: 384

Description

Richard Littlejohn's cast of characters - including Two Jags, the Wicked Witch, Captain Hook and the Mad Mullah of the Traffic Taliban - are now part of the fabric of the nation. He ridicules the country Britain has become over the past ten years - the barmy bureaucracy, the surveillance state, the petty interference in our lives, the suffocating regulations, policemen and judges who think they're part of the social services and the insanities of the 'elf 'n' safety industry, which has created such idiocies as forcing revellers celebrating Guy Fawkes Night to watch a bonfire on a big screen. 'Littlejohn has been ... a vivid exponent of a great British columnar style that stretches back five centuries or more. He's a distant, bastard cousin of Thomas Nash, Daniel Defoe and Alexander Pope. Cassandra and Bernard Levin might justly buy him a pint in the Cheshire Cheese. Like or loathe him, he's the real, talented deal.' Observer

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Book Details

Imprint	Arrow Books Ltd
Publication Year	2007

Contributors

Author Info

Richard Littlejohn is an award-winning journalist and broadcaster, and author of two best-selling books. He has written for London\'s Evening Standard and Punch and is still a contributor to the Spectator. His twice-weekly columns in the Daily Mail and the Sun earned him a place in the inaugural Newspaper Hall of Fame as one of the most influential journalists of the past 40 years.
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\nHe has been Fleet Street\'s Columnist of the Year and was named Irritant of the Year by the BBC\'s What The Papers Say awards for his unrivalled ability to get up the noses of the Establishment. His extensive radio and television work has brought him both a Sony award and a Silver Rose of Montreux.
\nLittlejohn\'s satirical novel To Hell In A Handcart was the fastest-selling fiction paperback on its release in 2001. His highly acclaimed non-fiction book You Couldn\'t Make It Up skewered John Major\'s Conservative government - much the same as Littlejohn\'s Britain does for the Blair years.

Dimensions

Width	24 mm
Height	198 mm
Length	129 mm
Depth	24
Weight	267 gr

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