What Just Happened?!: Dispatches from Turbulent Times (The Sunday Times Bestseller)

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Not living in the UK, I am not ofay with a level of detail that I would likely need to appreciate, to have lived through, to get the most from this selected collection of Guardian thrice weekly articles written by the author. So whilst I can appreciate some superlative comedic writing, I know that I am in all likelihood missing a key element in truly appreciating the work to its fullest. Marina’s sharp insights and dry humour make her regular Guardian columns a must read highlight. I often find myself re-reading paragraphs in wonder - thinking how cleverly they have been constructed, so sharply cutting through to the point at hand. We are experiencing delays with deliveries to many countries, but in most cases local services have now resumed. For more details, please consult the latest information provided by Royal Mail's International Incident Bulletin. Faber & Faber was founded nearly a century ago, in 1929. Read about our long publishing history in a decade-by-decade account. In particular I enjoyed Marina Sharp’s descriptions of politicians and other public figures. Theresa May is ‘The Florence Foster Jenkins of politics’, ‘governing like she’s got a landslide majority’, Boris Johnson ‘what would happen if you started making Margaret Rutherford out of papier-mâché but got bored halfway through’ and Jacob Rees-Mogg ‘a sort of monocled Sergio Ramos’. I am visualising the Spitting Image puppets as I write!

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Due to high demand, this event has changed venues and will now take place at the Assembly Roxy. We are planning for there to be a book signing following the conversation. Drawn from her spectacularly funny Guardian columns, What Just Happened?! is a welcome blast of humour and sanity in a world where reality has become stranger than fiction.

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If like me you were horrified by the outcome of the 2016 referendum and feel that the country has been on a downward spiral since then, this is the book for you! If however despite the events of the past few years you have continued to put your faith in the Tories then I don’t think it would appeal! I also think it requires a certain amount of knowledge and understanding of British politics, as the columns are written as reaction to events rather than describing them. On a small feed day, its the kittens - usually little celebrities, outré or struggling in someway, with some dubious claim to plausibility or fame, tottering on their high heels these (often) silly girls are delivered though the hatch to the famished she-wolf of the Guardian newspaper. This is an incredibly funny and scary and brilliant book. It's not going to please people with certain politics, but for those whose politics is even centre-ground, Marina Hyde's pithy way with words will have you laughing out loud. She grounds you. She gets to the core of an issue, peeling away all the rubbish and says, look at this! Seriously, look at this! The class system has an inordinate influence on politics in the U.K. The state of affairs in which the vast majority of PMs (including Labour Party ones) have gone to Eton, then Oxford, is bizarre in the extreme to the rest of the world, but seems to be universally seen as OK across the pond. Apart from this, my main engagement with U.K. politics has been the several occasions when I've had to explain to people when they refer to my home city of Dublin as being 'part of the U.K. I haven't been to', or 'part of the U.K. I love', etc., that in fact, Dublin has been a part of the Republic of Ireland since we won the War of Independence in 1921. However, it has been fascinating to read the take of someone who contends with this system as a voter and journalist, and is also an extremely gifted satirist. June 2016: Nigel Farage is about to achieve everything he wants. That alone should make leavers think again.

of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars What Just Happened?!: Dispatches from Turbulent Times by Marina Hyde From 1st July 2021, VAT will be applicable to those EU countries where VAT is applied to books - this additional charge will be collected by Fed Ex (or the Royal Mail) at the time of delivery. Shipments to the USA & Canada: A full state banquet of crazy: Marina Hyde’s Guardian column has been a reliable place to turn to for comic relief when the grotesque incompetence, chaos, sleaze and lies of our betters threaten to overwhelm. Arguably, a collection of journalistic hot takes on an unusually turbulent period in our history - this volume starts in 2019 and ends in the defenestration of Johnson - runs the risk of seeming horribly dated but we need this as a reminder, and a laugh out loud one at that, of all that has happened.

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Columns from the inimitable Marina Hyde from 2016-2022: if you haven't read her, feast your eyes on quotations below and rest assured, there's plenty more of this sardonic commentary. In the interests of our sanity. The articles are well-written, but some of them are from quite a long time ago, so I had to keep looking things up to see what was being referred to. Join Hyde as she revisits every moment of magic, from David Cameron to Theresa May to Boris Johnson to Rishi Sunak. Did not finish. In the introduction to the book Marina worries presenting topical news and political newspaper articles won't work years after they were first written. I love Marina Hyde's writing, and her column in the Guardian is always a highlight. She has so many great turns of phrase, and beautifully captures the mood of the moment.After all, as a junior minister in Her Majesty’s government, Andrea enjoyed the sort of anonymity you’d hope for in one of the better witness protection programmes.” Read about the Faber story, find out about our unique partnerships, and learn more about our publishing heritage, awards and present-day activity. Celebrity kittens, and big beasts are I imagine, fed to her through a hatch, on a pitch fork, from a distance for the safety of her handlers. June 2016: As for Boris, never forget that the only untruth the prime ministerial favourite-in-waiting corrected in the entire campaign was the Sunday Times misapprehension that he dyed his hair. Be it biography, history, nature writing or any other form of true story, non-fiction writing is often loaded with just as much suspense and character as the most exciting novel