Author(s): Chris Addison

Gift/Humour

These are dark days. The world is seething with imbeciles and poltroons. Everywhere the careless and thoughtless are charging about the place in hulking 4x4s, or inviting Channel 4 to come around rather than clean their own homes. So comedian, Chris Addison has written "Cautionary Tales For Grown-Ups" - poems to illustrate the dangers of modern behaviour. The tales include: The Gloucestershire Horse Club, Who posed Naked for a Charity Calendar; Phillip, who talked only in Management Speak; Myfanwy, Who answered an Email from a Nigerian Bank Manager; and Fiona and Dave, who had a Wacky Wedding. Sparklingly wicked and cunningly illustrated, this is a hilarious Struwelpeter for the twenty-first century.