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John O'Farrell


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John O'Farrell is the author of four novels: The Man Who Forgot His Wife, May Contain Nuts, This Is Your Life and The Best a Man Can Get. His novels have been translated into over twenty languages and have been adapted for radio and television. He has also written two best-selling history books: An Utterly Impartial History of Britain and An Utterly Exasperated History of Modern Britain, as well as a political memoir, Things Can Only Get Better and three collections of his column in The Guardian. A former comedy scriptwriter for such productions as Spitting Image, Room 101, Murder Most Horrid and Chicken Run, he is founder of the satirical website NewsBiscuit and can occasionally be spotted on such TV programmes as Grumpy Old Men, Question Time and Have I Got News for You.
 

Genres: General Fiction
 
New and upcoming books
February 2024

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Family Politics
 
Novels
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John O'Farrell recommends
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Dog's Mercury (2015)
Carey Harrison
"I think we burn every library and still get the entire 20th century with this book."
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Lex (2011)
James Mylet
"Funny and charming... it was a great relief to discover it wasn't just me who felt like that at seventeen."

Anthologies containing stories by John O'Farrell
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Magic (2002)
New Stories
edited by
Sarah Brown and Gil McNeil

Awards
Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for Comic Writing Best Novel nominee (2006) : May Contain Nuts
Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for Comic Writing Best Novel nominee (2012) : The Man Who Forgot His Wife


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