Am I Alone in Thinking...?: Unpublished Letters to the Editor: Unpublished Letters to The Daily Telegraph (Daily Telegraph Letters) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1845135024 ISBN 13: 9781845135027

Verlag: Aurum Press Ltd, 2009

Inhaltsangabe

Sir, I find it intensely humiliating to be asked by airport security staff if I have packed my own bag. This forces one to admit, usually within earshot of others, that I no longer have a manservant to do the chore for me...''Sir, Since you reported the impending opening of a lap dancing club here in Henley-on-Thames I have organised new glasses and a blood pressure check with my doctor. I can't wait!''Sir - I believe that Barack Obama and Jonathon Ross are both 47 years old. There the similarity ends!' Readers of the Daily Telegraph will be fondly aware of the combination of wistful nostalgia, robust no-nonsense good sense and appalled outrage that characterises its Letters page, which if it did not exist would have to be invented to publish the choleric missives of all the Disgusteds of Tunbridge Wells (Air Commodore, Retd.). But what of all the letters that were just slightly too extreme, too off the wall, too politically incorrect, or just too barking mad, to make it for publication?Now the Telegraph gives their authors the stage at last: baffled, furious, frankly paranoid, and from this hilarious selection of the best we can see that every one of them is indeed Very Much Alone in what they're thinking...

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Iain Hollingshead spent two years on the Letters to the Editor desk before becoming a full-time feature writer for The Daily Telegraph. His more serious assignments have included reporting on the student riots in London and interviewing everyone from Michael Atherton to Gurkha veterans to a member of Seal Team Six, the elite unit which killed Osama bin Laden. His less serious assignments have included taking a bath in Las Vegas with six albino rabbits, spending three days behind the scenes at the Miss England competition, camping outside Westminster Abbey for the Royal Wedding, eating in five Michelin starred restaurants in one day, learning to flirt in Pizza Express, learning to Dance in Mamma Mia!, performing stand-up comedy to 300 eight-year-olds, training with the Royal Marines, climbing into a Spitfire and experiencing a Brighton nudist beach first hand. He now writes freelance for the paper. He has edited four bestselling collections of unpublished letters from the Daily Telegraph for Aurum.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Aurum Press Ltd
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2009
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1845135024
• ISBN 13: 9781845135027
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Zeichner: Matt
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 192
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Nicht verfügbar
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