A Long Lunch
My Stories and I'm Sticking to Them
$31.11
- Paperback
320 pages
- Release Date
26 May 2011
Summary
Simon Hoggart has long been admired as one of our leading commentators on modern life. His memoirs encompass his radio career, most notably as chair of the News Quiz, his life as a journalist and as an observer of the people he has met along the way.
A Long Lunch is both funny and quirky, whilst also being full of wisdom and insight.
During his career, Simon has met every British prime minister from Harold Macmillan onwards. His memoirs will divulge what Alan Clark th…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781848543980 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1848543980 |
| Author: | Simon Hoggart |
| Publisher: | John Murray Press |
| Imprint: | John Murray Publishers Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 320 |
| Release Date: | 26 May 2011 |
| Weight: | 226g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 133mm x 21mm |
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Very funny - Spectator
Not a writer who bombards you with tales of his triumphs, but a shrewd watcher from the wings, with some great jokes and excellent stories and insights, especially about politicians - Sunday TelegraphEqually engaging if at a slightly more flippant level, is Simon Hoggart’s A Long Lunch. Described by its author as ‘in no way a life of me’, it is still the best journalistic memoir since the late Alan Watkins A Short Walk Down Fleet Street of a decade ago - New Statesman, Books of the Year‘To say this is the perfect toilet book is intended as the highest praise … often funny and startling’ - IndependentAbout The Author
Simon Hoggart
Born in 1946, Simon Hoggart is the eldest child of the writer and academic Richard Hoggart. After Cambridge, he worked for the Guardian in Northern Ireland, Africa, and Westminster. He joined the Observer in 1991 as US correspondent, based in Washington, then returned to the UK to rejoin the political world. From 1996 to 2006 he chaired the News Quiz on Radio 4, and in 2001 became wine correspondent at the Spectator.
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