John O'Farrell

John O’Farrell is the author of two bestselling novels, The Best a Man Can Get and This Is Your Life, and the bestselling memoir Things Can Only Get Better. His name has flashed past at the end of such productions as Spitting Image, Have I got News For You and Chicken Run. He writes a weekly column in the Guardian and a collection of his journalism was recently published as Global Village Idiot. He lives in London with his wife and two children.

John has recently taken on his shoulders the small task of re-writing our entire history over more than 2,000 years. His last visit to The Book Show was to talk about his utterly impartial history of Britain, but this time he returns with his less optimistic book, subtitled “Sixty years of making the same mistakes.”

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An Utterly Exasperated History of Modern Britain
Following his hugely popular account of the previous 2000 years, John O'Farrell now comes bang up to date with a hilarious modern history asking 'How the hell did we end up here?' "An Utterly Exasperated History of Modern Britain" informs, elucidates and laughs at all the bizarre events, ridiculous characters and stupid decisions that have shaped Britain's story since 1945; leaving the Twenty-First Century reader feeling fantastically smug for having the benefit of hindsight.

If you want to read an extract of An Utterly Exasperated History of Britain, visit LoveReading.co.uk