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A Farewell to Calm
The New Normal Survival Guide
2021
EN
**JOHN CRACE'S NEW BOOK DEPRAVED NEW WORLD IS AVAILABLE NOW**Infectiously entertaining political satire, from the author of Decline and Fail and I, Maybot.Throughout another year of bluster and bedlam in Westminster, John Crace's brilliantly acerbic political sketches have once more provided the nation with a much-needed injection of humour.In A Farewell to Calm, Crace introduces...
The Bonfire of the Insanities
How Does This Government Thing Work Again?
2025
EN
A new serving of satire from bestselling author and beloved Guardian columnist John Crace.'I lap up everything John Crace writes gratefully: I love his cleverness, his wit, and his heart.' NIGELLA LAWSONIt ended as it began. With Downing Street under grey leaden skies. Someone's idea of a cosmic joke. Only this time the rain had eased to a light drizzle rather than a torrential downpour. If yo...
Depraved New World
Please Hold, the Government Will Be With You Shortly
2023
EN
**JOHN'S NEW BOOK THE BONFIRE OF THE INSANITIES IS AVAILABLE NOW**From bestselling author and beloved Guardian columnist John Crace comes a blisteringly hilarious tour through the whirlwind of post-Brexit Britain, from the ousting of Boris to the dawn of a new era . . . sort of.O brave new world, that has such people in't. Or not. William Shakespeare clearly had never imagined a clust...
Decline and Fail
Read in Case of Political Apocalypse
2019
EN
'Optimism, mojo, complete bollocks. That's what the country is crying out for.'There is now only one certainty in life. When things can't possibly get any worse, they absolutely will. And so, after three years of Maybot malfunctioning and Brexit bungling, welcome to BoJo the clown's national circus - where fun for literally none of the family is guaranteed.Fear not, however: Decline and Fail is your personal survival guide to the ongoing political ...
$9.59 CAD
I, Maybot
The Rise and Fall
2017
EN
'The Maybot is rebooted as strong and humble. Stumble for short.' 'Kim Jong-May awkward and incredulous as journalist asks question.' 'Supreme leader produces pure TV Valium on The One Show.'Throughout 2017 John Crace, the Guardian's parliamentary sketch writer, has watched Prime Minister Theresa May's efforts to remain strong and stable - and, indeed, Prime Minister. He coined the term 'Maybot' for her malfunctioning public appearances. And now,...
$9.59 CAD
Brideshead Abbreviated
The Digested Read of the Twentieth Century
2010
EN
Accessible
John Crace's 'Digested Read' column in the Guardian has rightly acquired a cult following. Each week fans avidly devour his latest razor-sharp literary assassination, while authors turn tremblingly to the appropriate page of the review section, fearful that it may be their turn to be mercilessly sent up.Now he turns his critical eye on the classics of the last century, offering bite-sized pastiches of everything from Mrs Dalloway to Trainspotting via ...
$10.99 CAD
I Never Promised You a Rose Garden
A Short Guide to Modern Politics, the Coalition and the General Election
2014
EN
Accessible
Exactly a week after the general election, two men – ‘Call me Dave’ and ‘Call me Nick’ – walked side by side into the rose garden of No. 10 Downing Street to give their first press-conference as Prime Minister and Deputy Prime Minister, looking for all the world like men in love. It was a romance in which people wanted to believe. But it was also one that people couldn't help but mistrust. Most unnerving, however, was the sense that they both couldn't quite believe their luck.
$10.99 CAD
The Bonfire of the Insanities
How Does This Government Thing Work Again?
- Narrated by
- George Weightman
Unabridged
8 hours 24 min
2025
EN
A new serving of satire from bestselling author and beloved Guardian columnist John Crace.'I lap up everything John Crace writes gratefully: I love his cleverness, his wit, and his heart.' NIGELLA LAWSONIt ended as it began. With Downing Street under grey leaden skies. Someone's idea of a cosmic joke. Only this time the rain had eased to a light drizzle rather than a torrential downpour. If yo...
A Farewell to Calm
The New Normal Survival Guide
- Narrated by
- George Weightman
Unabridged
6 hours 44 min
2021
EN
**JOHN CRACE'S NEW BOOK DEPRAVED NEW WORLD IS AVAILABLE NOW**Infectiously entertaining political satire, from the author of Decline and Fail and I, Maybot.Throughout another year of bluster and bedlam in Westminster, John Crace's brilliantly acerbic political sketches have once more provided the nation with a much-needed injection of humour.In A Farewell to Calm, Crace introduces a...
Depraved New World
Please Hold, the Government Will Be With You Shortly
- Narrated by
- George Weightman
Unabridged
8 hours 54 min
2023
EN
**JOHN'S NEW BOOK THE BONFIRE OF THE INSANITIES IS AVAILABLE NOW**From bestselling author and beloved Guardian columnist John Crace comes a blisteringly hilarious tour through the whirlwind of post-Brexit Britain, from the ousting of Boris to the dawn of a new era . . . sort of.O brave new world, that has such people in't. Or not. William Shakespeare clearly had never imagined a clust...
Decline and Fail: Read In Case of Political Apocalypse
Read In Case of Political Apocalypse
- Narrated by
- Alexander Doddy
Unabridged
8 hours 6 min
2020
EN
There is now only one certainty in life. When things can't possibly get any worse, they absolutely will. And so, after three years of Maybot malfunctioning and Brexit bungling, welcome to BoJo the clown's national circus - where fun for literally none of the family is guaranteed. Fear not, however: Decline and Fail is your personal survival guide to the ongoing political apocalypse. This unremittingly entertaining collection of John Crace's lifegiving political sketches will get you throug...
$20.06 CAD
I, Maybot: The Rise and Fall
The Rise and Fall
- Narrated by
- Alexander Doddy
Unabridged
6 hours 44 min
2020
EN
Throughout 2017 John Crace, the Guardian's parliamentary sketch writer, watched Prime Minister Theresa May's efforts to remain strong and stable - and, indeed, Prime Minister. He coined the term 'Maybot' for her malfunctioning public appearances. And now, in this edited collection of his unremittingly witty sketches, he tells the full story of Theresa May's turbulent first year in Westminster. As waspishly hilarious as Craig Brown's diaries in Private Eye, I, Maybot is essential and hyster...
$18.51 CAD











