Book description
For the past two years, Frank Skinner has written a weekly column for
The Times. Without fail, he sat down and wracked his brain to
think of something to write 900 words about. Dispatches from
the Sofa is the brilliant result.
Pondering such random topics as the potential demise of Margaret
Thatcher, the love-hate relationship with your football club, the
banking crisis and the evil phenomenon of Jedward, this is wit and
wisdom, and a fine sense of the absurd, all rolled into one.
Born in January 1957 Frank Skinner grew up in Oldbury and
Smethwick; West Midlands. After various jobs, he performed his first
stand up gig in December 1987 and went on to win the Perrier Award at
the Edinburgh Festival. He is currently a radio presenter on the
Saturday morning slot on Absolute Radio and host of the BBC2 talk show Opinionated.
Frank has written two previous books, the first of which was
Frank Skinner by Frank Skinner, the top selling autobiography
of 2002, spending 46 weeks in The Sunday Times Bestseller List.
His second book, the Richard & Judy Book Club Award-winning Frank
Skinner On The Road, chronicled his 2007, sell-out return to stand-up,
a decade after his then record-breaking 6,000-seater gig at Battersea
Power Station.
