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Brideshead Abbreviated: The Digested Read of the Twentieth Century by John Crace
Category: Humour
John Crace, creator of the Guardian's 'Digested Read' column, hilariously summarises the great - and not so great - classics of modern literature. John Crace's 'Digested Read' column in The Guardian has rightly acquired a cult following. Each week fans avidly devour his latest razor-sharp literary assa ...Show more
Depraved New World - Please Hold, the Government Will Be with You Shortly by John Crace
Category: Social Sciences
From bestselling author John Crace comes a blisteringly hilarious tour through the whirlwind of post-Brexit Britain, from the ousting of Boris to the dawn of a new era . . . sort of. O brave new world, that has such people in't. Or not. William Shakespeare clearly had never imagined a clusterf*ck on thi ...Show more
Farewell to Calm by John Crace
Category: Non-Fiction
Infectiously entertaining political satire, from the author of Decline and Fail and I, Maybot.
The Digested Twenty-first Century by John Crace
Category: Humour
John Crace's Digested Read first appeared in February 2000 and has been running ever since. Each week Crace reduces a new book - anything from a Booker Prize winner to a Nigella cookery book is fair game - to 700 words in a parody of the plot, style, dialogue and themes. Or lack of them. The Digested Re ...Show more
Vertigo: One Football Fan's Fear of Success by John Crace
Category: Sport
If you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs ...then you're probably not a football fan. Years of under achievement. An heroic sense of injustice. A seemingly infinite capacity for self-destruction. John Crace and Spurs were made for each other. But then the team started to play like p ...Show more
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