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Book SynopsisThe Lost Diaries is a wide-ranging anthology of the world's greatest diarists, each of them channelled onto paper through the considerable psychic force that is Craig Brown.
Trade ReviewHas one of the funniest indexes of any recent title and is also among the few works to feature both Lord Rees-Mogg and the 1970’s rock chick Suzi Quatro’ Sunday Times
‘Craig Brown is a brilliant parodist. And here is a book full of his brilliant parodies… It’s superb. It’s glorious.’ Evening Standard
‘The mix of belly laughter, common sense and the wildest whimsy makes it a prize example of the English sense of humour at its finest, and confirms Brown as the master of language and linguistic nuance, and our greatest living satirist' Sunday Times
'The most screamingly funny living writer … The republication rights should be acquired by the Gideons who will have it placed in a draw in every hotel room in the world', Five stars, Barry Humphries, Mail on Sunday
‘Inspired … a comic masterstroke’ Daily Telegraph
‘On-the-money parodies…cumulatively they skewer the voices of these “writers” in a funny, uncanny way. A fine display of a master parodist’ Financial Times
‘Pitch-perfect, laugh-out-loud parodies from our greatest living satirist’ Sunday Times, Must Reads
‘The amazing Craig Brown – the greatest satirist since Max Beerbohm’ Elaine Showalter, Guardian
‘A genius … in every instance, the skill of the parodist dwarfs any achievement attributable to his subject’ Auberon Waugh, Daily Telegraph
‘He is the comic writer the rest of us admire from afar, and envy beyond the bounds of reason. How does he do it?’ Markus Berkmann, Spectator
‘Britain’s wittiest satirist’ The Times
