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Title: THINGS CAN ONLY GET BETTER
By: John O'Farrell
Format: Paperback

List price: £9.99


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ISBN 10: 0552998036
ISBN 13: 9780552998031
Publisher: TRANSWORLD PUBLISHERS LTD
Pub. date: 1 May, 1999
Pages: 336
Description: A personal account of a Labour supporter's miserable eighteen years under a Tory government. A literary debut which combines wit with barbed insight from the author who has been a full time comedy writer since the voters of Battersea sacked him from his previous job as an MP's researcher for the House of Commons.
Synopsis: Like bubonic plague and stone cladding, no-one took Margaret Thatcher seriously until it was too late. Her first act as leader was to appear before the cameras and do a V for Victory sign the wrong way round. She was smiling and telling the British people to f*** off at the same time. It was something we would have to get used to.' Things Can Only Get Better is the personal account of a Labour supporter who survived eighteen miserable years of Conservative government. It is the heartbreaking and hilarious confessions of someone who has been actively involved in helping the Labour party lose elections at every level: school candidate: door-to-door canvasser: working for a Labour MP in the House of Commons; standing as a council candidate; and eventually writing jokes for a shadow cabinet minister. Along the way he slowly came to realise that Michael Foot would never be Prime Minister, that vegetable quiche was not as tasty as chicken tikki masala and that the nuclear arms race was never going to be stopped by face painting alone.
Publication: UK
Imprint: Black Swan
Returns: Returnable
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THE MAN WHO FORGOT HIS WIFE
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