Book description
'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.
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.
