One on One. Craig Brown

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BROWN, Craig

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Fourth Estate

WINNER OF THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE 2020 
A Spectator Book of the Year • A Times Book of the Year • A Telegraph Book of the Year • A Sunday Times Book of the Year 
From the award-winning author of Ma’am Darling: 99 Glimpses of Princess Margaret comes a fascinating, hilarious, kaleidoscopic biography of the Fab Four. 
John Updike compared them to ‘the sun coming out on an Easter morning’. Bob Dylan introduced them to drugs. The Duchess of Windsor adored them. Noel Coward despised them. JRR Tolkien snubbed them. The Rolling Stones copied them. Loenard Bernstein admired them. Muhammad Ali called them ‘little sissies’. Successive Prime Ministers sucked up to them. No one has remained unaffected by the music of The Beatles. As Queen Elizabeth II observed on her golden wedding anniversary, ‘Think what we would have missed if we had never heard The Beatles.’ 
One Two Three Four traces the chance fusion of the four key elements that made up The Beatles: fire (John), water (Paul), air (George) and earth (Ringo). It also tells the bizarre and often unfortunate tales of the disparate and colourful people within their orbit, among them Fred Lennon, Yoko Ono, the Maharishi, Aunt Mimi, Helen Shapiro, the con artist Magic Alex, Phil Spector, their psychedelic dentist John Riley and their failed nemesis, Det Sgt Norman Pilcher. 
From the bestselling author of Ma’am Darling comes a kaleidoscopic mixture of history, etymology, diaries, autobiography, fan letters, essays, parallel lives, party lists, charts, interviews, announcements and stories. One Two Three Four joyfully echoes the frenetic hurly-burly of an era.

One Two Three Four: The Beatles in Time

Biographies & Memoirs

Arts & Literature

Fourth Estate Ltd.

WINNER OF THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE 2020A Spectator Book of the Year A Times Book of the Year A Telegraph Book of the Year A Sunday Times Book of the YearFrom the award-winning author of Ma’am 99 Glimpses of Princess Margaret comes a fascinating, hilarious, kaleidoscopic biography of the Fab Four. John Updike compared them to ‘the sun coming out on an Easter morning’. Bob Dylan introduced them to drugs. The Duchess of Windsor adored them. Noel Coward despised them. JRR Tolkien snubbed them. The Rolling Stones copied them. Loenard Bernstein admired them. Muhammad Ali called them ‘little sissies’. Successive Prime Ministers sucked up to them. No one has remained unaffected by the music of The Beatles. As Queen Elizabeth II observed on her golden wedding anniversary, ‘Think what we would have missed if we had never heard The Beatles.’One Two Three Four traces the chance fusion of the four key elements that made up The fire (John), water (Paul), air (George) and earth (Ringo). It also tells the bizarre and often unfortunate tales of the disparate and colourful people within their orbit, among them Fred Lennon, Yoko Ono, the Maharishi, Aunt Mimi, Helen Shapiro, the con artist Magic Alex, Phil Spector, their psychedelic dentist John Riley and their failed nemesis, Det Sgt Norman Pilcher.From the bestselling author of Ma’am Darling comes a kaleidoscopic mixture of history, etymology, diaries, autobiography, fan letters, essays, parallel lives, party lists, charts, interviews, announcements and stories. One Two Three Four joyfully echoes the frenetic hurly-burly of an era.

'The most screamingly funny living writer' Barry Humphries, Mail on Sunday\nFrom 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. 
What is James Bond's middle name? 
How does Jacob Rees-Mogg's nanny set about cleaning him up in the morning? 
When did Piers Morgan introduce his special guest Kim Jong-Un as “the straight-talking boy from North Korea who grew up to become a global superstar”? 
All these important questions, and a great many more, are answered in Craig Brown's Haywire. 
Featuring handy household tips from Mary Berry (‘When eating a boiled egg be careful to remove the shell first, or it can be a little crunchy’) and historic admissions from Queen Elizabeth 1st to Oprah Winfrey concerning her mother's beheading (‘Thank you for having the courage to share that with us’), Haywire presents a survival guide to the 21st century. 
In one chapter, Brown writes about the influence of Blackpool on Sigmund Freud and Les Dawson. In another, he unearths the Historical Online Archive and discovers that the invention of the wheel in Mesopotamia in 4000 BC drew fierce criticism on social media. “My mate tried it, says it's total rubbish” wrote Brian from Sumeria. 
The acclaimed biographer of Princess Margaret and The Beatles delivers essays on such diverse figures as Ronald Searle, John Stonehouse, Bruce Springsteen, Richard Dawkins, Katie Price, Stanley Spencer, Harry and Meghan, Brian Epstein, Kenneth Williams, Ronald Reagan, Simon Dee and the Marx Brothers. 
With the full battery of the humourist's armoury – clerihews, tongue-twisters, whimsy, parody, farce, satire, social observation, nonsense – Brown skewers the passing fads and delusions of the contemporary world. 
‘Our greatest living satirist’ Sunday Times 
‘Exquisitely naughty and hilarious’ Guardian 
‘Craig Brown’s humour will outlive his victims … his journalism is one of the few compensations for being British now’ Sunday Telegraph 
Craig Brown's book 'One Two Three Four' was a Sunday Times bestseller w/c 19-04-2021.

Haywire: The Best of Craig Brown

Humor & Entertainment

Humor

Barn Raising

When Jacob's family barn burns to the ground, he turns to his friends and neighbors in his Amish community to help him build another, thus in the course of one day, people from miles around lend a hand and work as a unit to get the important job done.

Children's Books

Growing Up & Facts of Life

Greenwillow

This collection of wit, whimsy, parody and satire from the funniest humorist in Britain today captures the essence of British life. He is as funny on soaps, Posh Spice, and the Little Chef as he is on art and politics.

This is Craig Brown

Ebury Press

This collection of wit, whimsy, parody and satire from the funniest humorist in Britain today captures the essence of British life. He is as funny on soaps, Posh Spice, and the Little Chef as he is on art and politics.

This is Craig Brown: As Heard on Radio 4

The Tony Years

A hilarious collection of articles from the Blair era by Britain’s leading humorous satirist. The parody, whimsy and wit not only capture the essence of life under New Labour, but go far deeper into Tony’s Britain than mere political satire could.

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One on One. Craig Brown

One Two Three Four: The Beatles in Time

One Two Three Four: The Beatles in Time

Haywire: The Best of Craig Brown

Haywire: The Best of Craig Brown

Barn Raising

Barn Raising

This is Craig Brown

This is Craig Brown: As Heard on Radio 4

The Tony Years