The Tony Years

Oct 21, 2024 3:53 AM

Author:Craig Brown

The Tony Years

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.

Reviews

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

A glitteringly funny collection

—— Spectator

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

—— Evening Standard

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

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

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