A collection of John O'Farrell's columns for the "Guardian" and "The Independent". Among other claims, the book reveals his belief that genetically engineered monkeys will advertise lapsang souchong and that the election of George W. Bush has given the global village its own village idiot.

Global Village Idiot

O'FARRELL, JOHN.

Reference

DOUBLEDAY

A doctor in America has just invented a 'sperm sorting machine'. At least that's what he claimed when his receptionist burst into the office to find him doing something peculiar with the Hoover attachment. Apparently the system used for separating the male and female sperm is remarkably simple. A sample is placed in the petri dish with a microscopic pile of household items on a tiny staircase. All the sperm that go straight past without picking anything up are obviously boys. John O'Farrell's first collection of columns GLOBAL VILLAGE IDIOT was a huge success prompting fulsome praise from such major public figures as the Queen Mother, Roy Jenkins and Cardinal Hume. Sadly, since their deaths, their glowing endorsements cannot be officially verified. So here instead is another collection of funny, satirical essays on a hundred and one 21st century subjects. Read how the government plans to introduce 'Santa loans' that will leave school children GBP10,000 in debt for all the presents that used to be free from Father Christmas. Learn how the EU is being expanded to include Narnia. And did you know that American war planes now have a little sticker on the back saying 'How's my bombing?' with an 0800 number to call if they blow up any Muslim country in a discourteous of aggressive manner ...

I Blame the Scapegoats: Guardian Columns: The Final Sequel (Part One)

History

John O’Farrell has put together the best and funniest of his front page headline howlers in this collection of satirical news stories from the popular ezine, Newsbiscuit, which consistently delivers witty, fictitious news headlines across the globe seven days a week.

Isle of Wight to Get Ceefax: And Other Groundbreaking Stories from Newsbiscuit

Humor & Entertainment

Humor

Doubleday, UK

An Utterly Exasperated History of Modern Britain: or Sixty Years of Making the Same Stupid Mistakes as Always

Transworld Publishers Limited

Alice never imagined she would end up like this, so anxious after hearing about the dangers of meteorites that she makes her children wear bike helmets in the wading pool. Her husband, David, has taught their four-year-old to list every animal represented in Prokofiev’s Peter and the Wolf. But the more they push their children, the more things there are to worry about. It seems no amount of gluten rationing or herbal teas can improve their children’s intellectual development, and as Alice’s eldest child looks set to fail her entrance exam for the exclusive private school on which her parents have pinned all their hopes, Alice decides to take matters into her own hands. With a baseball cap pulled low over her face, Alice shuffles into a hall of two hundred kids and takes the test in place of her daughter, her first examination in twenty years. With a comic eye for detail that has sent his books to the top of the British best-seller lists, May Contain Nuts is a funny, compelling, and provocative satire of the manic world of today’s overcompetitive, overprotective families.

May Contain Nuts

Black Swan.

I Have a Bream

Following his hugely popular account of the previous 2000 years, John O'Farrell now comes bang up to date with a hilarious modern history asking 'How the hell did we end up here?' An Utterly Exasperated History of Modern Britain informs, elucidates and laughs at all the bizarre events, ridiculous characters and stupid decisions that have shaped Britain's story since 1945; leaving the Twenty-First Century reader feeling fantastically smug for having the benefit of hindsight.

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The Best A Man Can Get

Literature & Fiction

Humor & Satire

Black Swan Books

Alice never imagined that she would end up like this. Is she the only mother who feels so permanently panic-stricken at the terrors of the modern world--or is it normal to sit up in bed all night popping bubble wrap? She worries that too much gluten and dairy may be hindering the children's mental math. 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 definitely not going to fail that crucial secondary school entrances exam. Because Alice has decided to take the test in her child's place...

Isis Large Print Books

Contemporary

Isis Large Print

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Global Village Idiot

I Blame the Scapegoats: Guardian Columns: The Final Sequel (Part One)

Isle of Wight to Get Ceefax: And Other Groundbreaking Stories from Newsbiscuit

An Utterly Exasperated History of Modern Britain: or Sixty Years of Making the Same Stupid Mistakes as Always

May Contain Nuts

I Have a Bream

An Utterly Exasperated History of Modern Britain: or Sixty Years of Making the Same Stupid Mistakes as Always

The Best A Man Can Get

May Contain Nuts

May Contain Nuts