Things Can Only Get Better: Eighteen Miserable Years in the Life of a Labour Supporter - Softcover

John O'Farrell

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0552998036 ISBN 13: 9780552998031

Publisher: Bantam Doubleday Dell, 1999

Synopsis

A personal account of a Labour supporter's miserable eighteen years under a Tory government. A literary debut which combines wit with barbed insight from the author who has been a full time comedy writer since the voters of Battersea sacked him from his previous job as an MP's researcher for the House of Commons.

About this title

About the Author:

John O'Farrell is the author of seven books. His first book, Things Can Only Get Better, was a number one bestseller and was dramatized for BBC Radio 4. The Best a Man Can Get was the bestselling debut novel of 2002. As well as being a bestselling author, John O'Farrell is a regular contributor to television and radio. For the past five years he has written a weekly humorous column for the Guardian, three collections of which have been published as Global Village Idiot, I Blame the Scapegoats and I Have a Bream.

Review:

"'The funniest book I have read for two and a half years'" -- Arthur Smith "'The whingeing memoirs of a snivelling leftie. The man should be shot'" -- Jack Dee "'Very funny'" Mail on Sunday "'Excellent...Whatever your politics Things Can Only Get Better will make you laugh out loud'" -- Angus Deayton "'Very funny'" The Times

About this edition

• Publisher: Bantam Doubleday Dell
• Publication date: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0552998036
• ISBN 13: 9780552998031
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 336