Digested read
John Crace’s incisive pastiches of the most popular writers, from Bridget Jones to Julian Barnes
‘Five-year-old on acid’: Liz Truss’s Ten Years to Save the West, digested by John Crace
Sketchwriter’s take on memoir of PM who screwed up catastrophically and quickly but thinks there’s still work to do
‘If only Harry were next in line, said a source close to Harry’ – Omid Scobie’s Endgame, digested by John Crace
The book that charts the royal race row has finally made it to British shores. Our parliamentary sketch writer assesses the damage
‘I would make a stand. For Boris. My rock’ – Nadine Dorries’ The Plot, digested by John Crace
The former minister stretches out a tale of a fiendishly fiendish Tory party conspiracy. Our sketch writer shortens the story
‘I never doubted you! Now, let’s have sex’ – Cleo Watson’s Whips, digested by John Crace
After Watson’s stint at No 10, she made headlines with her tales of having to ‘nanny’ Boris Johnson. Now she’s written a bonkbuster set in Westminster – and John Crace has read it so you don’t have to
‘I was alone. Abandoned. With only a hundred million in the bank’ – Spare, digested by John Crace
Prince Harry’s memoir is the UK’s fastest-selling nonfiction book ever. Too busy to read it? All the love, rancour, drugs and petty fights are here
‘Everyone calls to say how marvellous I am’ – Matt Hancock’s Pandemic Diaries, digested by John Crace
From the affair with Gina to the feud with Dom, our parliamentary sketchwriter boils down the former health minister’s memoir
Ten to Zen by Owen O'Kane – digested read
‘Slow down your thinking. Feel the serenity that comes from finding out you are the bore you’ve always thought’
Why French Women Feel Young at 50 by Mylène Desclaux – digested read
Like any true Parisienne, the first thing on my mind was ‘Will I jamais get my jambe over again?’ But if you jouer vos cartes right you can still get beaucoup d’action
If You'd Just Let Me Finish ... by Jeremy Clarkson – digested read
‘The Guardian is always going on about women and the menopause. What about fat middle-aged guys having a midlife crisis?’
Letters Home 1936-1977 by Philip Larkin – digested read
‘I gather from the fact that Pop hasn’t written for some while that he must have died. Here is a drawing of a frog. Still at least we have Basil Brush on the television’
Full Disclosure by Stormy Daniels – digested read
John Crace grapples with the memoirs of the porn star who allegedly bedded a future president
The Fox by Frederick Forsyth – digested read
John Crace puts the squeeze on the master thriller writer’s tale of teenage hackers, Russian spies and English baronets
Katerina by James Frey – digested read
‘I am fabulously rich. I’m more than a writer, I’m a brand. I have an agent to keep Hollywood at bay. I am going to burn the world down’
21 Lessons for the 21st Century by Yuval Noah Harari – digested read
The historian’s thoughts on how the world of the present might prepare for an uncertain future are distilled, with artistic licence
First Man In: Leading from the Front by Ant Middleton – digested read
‘I broke my ankle carrying 200 kilos on a 60-mile hike. So I broke the other one to even up the pain’
The President Is Missing by Bill Clinton and James Patterson – digested read
‘I’m President Jonathan Duncan, a war hero and not a draft-dodger. Everything Bill Clinton would like to have been’
The Neighborhood by Mario Vargas Llosa – digested read
‘Marisa, Chabela and Quique celebrated the end of the bombing with another juddering three-way orgasm’
Meghan: A Hollywood Princess by Andrew Morton – digested read
A young woman’s journey from California dreaming to whirlwind royal romance, charted by Andrew Morton, retold more succinctly by John Crace
Bob Honey Who Just Do Stuff by Sean Penn – digested read
‘Bob wakes up to the thrum of his throbbing thesaurus in search of ever more aggravating alliteration’
Rebel Prince by Tom Bower – digested read
The latest biography of the heir to Britain’s throne is given a proper crowning by John Crace
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