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  • Published: 15 July 2007
  • ISBN: 9780091909703
  • Imprint: Ebury Press
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 448
  • RRP: $35.00
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The Tony Years



A unique and hilarious take on Britain under the rule of our dear departed Prime Minister from acclaimed journalist and parodist Craig Brown

An awful lot has happened since that bright, fateful May morning in 1997 when New Labour swept to power. Things, we were told, Could Only Get Better. Instead, things took a turn for the worse...

To console Tony Blair as he embarks on his long, grinning journey into oblivion, Craig Brown has packed a special time-capsule of Britain during the Tony Years: from Cool Britannia to ASBOs and from Posh and Becks to Charles and Camilla, the nation's funniest satirist makes sense - and nonsense - of it all.

  • Published: 15 July 2007
  • ISBN: 9780091909703
  • Imprint: Ebury Press
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 448
  • RRP: $35.00
Categories:

About the author

Craig Brown

Craig Brown was born in 1957 and has been in journalism for over 20 years, writing for both national newspapers and magazines. His previous books include two novels, collections of his fictional journalists Bel Littlejohn and Wallace Arnold, as well as The Little Book of Chaos and The Craig Brown Private Eye Omnibus. He also writes the Way of the World column for the Daily Telegraph.

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Praise for The Tony Years

It is meant as a compliment when I say The Tony Years ... is destined for lavatory immortality

Observer

My way through this book was punctuated by giggles and snorts of laughter, and I will be dipping into it for a long time to come

Independent on Sunday

Worth three times the price

Sunday Telegraph

Unbeatable

Independent

Brilliant ... Brown's inventiveness is inexhaustible ... How lucky we are to have this master in our midst

Mail on Sunday

His humour is based on pitch-perfect parody of the pompous and the deluded ... For hilarious, heartfelt and caustic attacks on the useless and the ephemeral, Brown cannot be bettered

New Stateman

Craig Brown is arguably the finest satirist working out of these shores today and The Tony Years is a perfect companion piece to his previous anthology, This is Craig Brown ... It's a dip-able delight

Metro

Britain's best satirist inspires love and fear in equal measure, the first from his fans, the second from his victims

Evening Standard

A glitteringly funny collection

Spectator