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 in the style of Hilaire Belloc or Struwelpeter, to illustrate the dangers of modern behaviour. The tales include: Valerie, who boasted of her family on Classic FM Lunchtime Requests; Endymion Black, who texted all day long and was crushed under the weight of his own thumb; and Sarah-Jane, who got all her opinions from the papers and was frightened to death. Sparklingly wicked and cunningly illustrated, this is a hilarious Struwelpeter for the twenty-first century.