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'John O'Farrell couldn't be unfunny if he tried' Alan Johnson 'A touch of self-deprecation and a sense of humour... John O'Farrell has these qualities in spades' Guardian 'O'Farrell is a consistently humorous writer with an acute ear for the absurdities of middle class pretension' Mail on Sunday _________________ All across Britain, a generation of grown-up children are graduating from university, moving back in to their old bedrooms and showing their gratitude by berating their parents for their out-of-date politics. But for proud and high-profile left-wingers Emma and Eddie Hughes, the return of their only child is a far greater challenge than they ever could have anticipated. Young Dylan had warned them there was something personal he needed to tell them, but nothing could have prepared his right-on parents for the shocking revelation he delivers. Their son is a Conservative. John O'Farrell's highly popular family novels such as May Contain Nuts or The Best A Man Can Get meet the razor-sharp political satire of Things Can Only Get Better in this hilarious and warm-hearted antidote to our divided times. Read it and pass it on to that annoying relative who votes the other way.

Re-live the glory and the heartache of England's greatest ever game - and THAT World Cup Final back in 2022. Well now itâe(tm)s 2022 and the discussion is finally over, England have eleven players as good as any of them. The unbeatable national team have reached the final of the Qatar World Cup. But one journalist is convinced there is a scandalous secret behind Englandâe(tm)s incredible form. His lifetimeâe(tm)s dream is to see the Three Lions win the World Cup. But if he pursues and exposes the shocking truth, his beloved England could be sent home in disgrace. Suddenly this is much more than England vs Germany; itâe(tm)s Love vs Duty, itâe(tm)s Truth vs Happiness. The pressure of the penalty shoot-out is nothing compared to this. Thereâe(tm)s Only Two David Beckhams is John Oâe(tm)Farrellâe(tm)s love-letter to football; part-detective story, part-sports memoir, part-satire on the whole corrupt FIFA circus; it just made the final for the funniest football fiction ever written...

A Tube train is trapped underground due to an economic collapse above. It explores how this situation arose and how the passengers will escape, potentially breaking the unspoken rules of Underground etiquette by communicating with one another.

Wandering around a busy railway station, a confused man realises he has suffered a total memory loss. When he is eventually rescued, he is told that his breakdown has probably been triggered by his marital problems. But then he comes face to face with the stranger he is supposed to be divorcing and promptly falls head over heels in love with her.

Elucidates the bizarre events, ridiculous characters and stupid decisions that have shaped Britain's story since 1945

Examines how England's peculiar class system was established by some snobby French nobles whose posh descendents still have wine cellars and second homes in the Dordogne. This title explores the complex socio-economic reasons why Britain's kings were the first in Europe to be brought to heel. It is a journey through Britain' bizarre history.

Controlling maternal obsession. Alice feels panic stricken at the terrors of the modern world. She worries too much gluten and dairy may be hindering her children's mental maths. She frets that there are too many cars on the road to let them out of the 4x4. Finally she resolves to take control and tackle her biggest worry of all, her daughter is not going to fail that secondary school entrance exam because Alice has decided to take the test in her child's place....

'This week the first pet passports came into effect. Around the country dogs have been hopping into photo booths and trying to look as relaxed as possible, which is not easy when you know you're not allowed on the chair.'Gathered here are the best of John O'Farrell's newspaper columns for the Guardian and the Independent which saw him win the coveted Best Columnist of the Year Award at the prestigious British Liars Awards. Among many other things, he claims that the only conviction in the Tory Party will be when Jeffrey Archer gets sent to prison; that scientists have created a genetically superior monkey which will advertise lapsang souchong instead of PG Tips; and that with the election of George W. Bush, the global village has finally got its own global village idiot.

It's a big night at the London Palladium. As Jimmy Conway steps out live on national television, blinking in the spotlights, he can't help wondering whether he should have perhaps shared his little secret with someone else by now. Jimmy has never done any performing of any sort ever before... Just as bogus doctors are occasionally discovered working in hospitals, Jimmy Conway has become a bogus celebrity: winning an award for something he never did, being photographed in Hello! in someone else's house, and ultimately making a fool of the entire mad and shallow celebrity merry-go-round.

A musician who writes jingles for adverts secretly lives a precarious double life in an attempt to escape the strain of parenthood