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What Just Happened!: Dispatches from Turbulent Times
By (Author) Marina Hyde
Guardian Faber Publishing
Guardian Faber Publishing
18th October 2022
Export - Airside ed
United Kingdom
General
Non Fiction
Politics and government
Reportage, journalism or collected columns
Gift books
828.9207
Paperback
480
Width 153mm, Height 234mm, Spine 34mm
600g
'It's a scientific FACT: Marina Hyde is Britain's funniest writer.' - CAITLIN MORAN
No other writer is more suited to chronicle the absurd and chaotic times we live in. This book - based on Hyde's spectacularly funny Guardian columns - tells the story of the hellscape of the Cameron, May and Johnson eras, Trumpian wtf-ery to celebrity twattery, the Royal soap-opera and the series finale of the United Kingdom. Hyde sees through the looking glass and calls out the utter crap rained down on us from populists, tech billionaires, reality TV monsters, media barons, sporting pundits and Gwyneth Paltrow.
What Just Happened! will be a welcome blast of humour and sanity in the more-than-likely bleak winter of 2022.
Marina Hyde has worked at the Guardian since 2000, where her weekly columns have won her a reputation as one of the most admired journalists in the UK. The recipient of multiple awards, including the 2020 Edgar Wallace Award for writing of the highest quality, she has been named Political Commentator of the Year for the past two years by the Society of Editors, and Commentator of the Year at the Press Awards for the past three years running. She is the only woman in 45 years to receive the Sportswriter of the Year award from the Sports Journalists' Association. She lives in London.