Marcus Berkmann is celebrated for his humorous observations on everyday life. His writing, often focusing on themes such as cricket, pub quizzes, and navigating middle age, is characterized by its dry wit and sardonic yet affectionate insights. He delights in dissecting the minutiae of social customs and routines with unflinching precision, revealing their inherent absurdity. Readers will appreciate his knack for finding comedy in the mundane and presenting it with a uniquely British sensibility.
From the bestselling author of A Shed of One's Own, a very funny memoir about being 60. 'Berkmann is a fine observer of decline. He says what other men would rather not think about, let alone discuss. Another ten years pottering around in his shed and he'll have cracked it' Sunday Times
A comprehensive guide to becoming a full-time writer from bestselling author Marcus Berkmann (though he highly advises you do not)
A wildly entertaining ride through the galloping absurdities of pop.
The defining collection of cricketing miscellany from the pre-eminent cricket humourist
For gossip and backstage inttrigue, the history and the myth, turn to Markus Berkmann's Set Phasers to Stun, a lively and witty history The Times
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.
A hilarious book about male midlife, from the inimitable humour of Marcus Berkmann
For many men, middle age arrives too fast and without due warning. One day you are young, free and single; the next you are all washed up, and have weird tendrils of hair growing out of your ears. Marcus Berkmann isn't having it. Having marked a Significant Birthday by hiding under a duvet for six weeks, the author of the classic Rain Men finds some light in the all-consuming darkness. 'We may have lost our hair, our waistline or our way completely. But we have also gained a certain amount of guile and what some might call "gravitas" (and others world call "weight").'
A collection of Dumb Britain and Commentatorballs. This collection of the best of Private Eye's Dimb Britain and Commentatorballs is edited by Marcus Berkmann and illustrated by Robert Thompson and Penelope Beech.
Marcus Berkmann's brilliant and hilarious account of the highs and lows (let's face it mainly lows) of watching Ashes cricket for 35 years