worst book I saw in this “best of British” selection

Heroic Failure is a book by an Irish writer on why brexit was such a stupid idea. I started reading it a few years back cos i found it cheap in a sale in the chain newsagent in town here. I only didn't finish it cos I started buying books when i got to London.
I think he's a good writer. Was actually thinking about not having completed the book earlier and wondering where it was.

heroic failure for two main reasons, fot and inclusion

Most of these books could be the punchline to an Alan Partridge joke. Only missing Bravo Two Zero by Andy McNab, which actually improves with every read.

Is that a weird quasi ironic grouping. Seems a number of those are attacking elements of what is supposedly British.

Obviously Shipman is a cunt but I may need to do some research here

I mean I hate Akala but he's not a cunt, he's trying god bless him

I keep assuming Dan Jackson is one of the other shit history cunt Dans, why the fuck has Dan turned into a tag for shit history cunts?

Is the photo from a random Waterstones or something.

Wonder how well it works asa sales tool anyway. It's not anywhere near St george's day is it?
Maybe somebody needed to remind people of some amorphous something since Brexit was coming apart at the seams and the govt was a joke?
Wasn't St George like Turkish or something anyway?

Georgian i think but Turkish nationalists have a lot of thoughts

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is Mantel Pieces good?

Points for title.

Rex Mantlepiece to thread!

It's hard to objectively poll a "worst book", because if people suspect a book is likely to be bad, they avoid it. Any poll results you get are more probably a reflection of "which author among these do I despise the most".

For “worst” sub in least appropriate/wrong nationality/what the fuck as taste suits

I had forgotten that Tom Bower was the author of the scathing biography of Corbyn and went and bought a couple of other books by him. Operation Paperclip. I mean obviously if he is going to attack Corbyn his perspective on everything else must be equally askew. Innit. Like.

Secret Barrister one is worst because I hate all these fucking coward ‘Secret’ whatever things. You know that whoever the actual person is, is the biggest cunt in whatever profession it is

iirc he has a Twitter rep - it must be a he - for being a wanker

Took the words out of my mouth, was very concerned about Corbyn’s “authoritarianism” iirc

setting aside the political attitudinising on twitter (which my learned friends and esteemed colleagues gyac and noodle vague characterise correctly), the LRB review of the secret barrister book was actually pretty positive: https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v43/n05/stephen-sedley/mischief-wrought

i can't imagine it's worse than anything by tom bower

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