Unhinged: A Parody

The perfect parody Christmas gift book for that selfish egomaniac in your life. Love him or (let''s face it, more likely) loathe him, Boris Johnson has been a towering figure for decades in the worlds of politics, journalism and personal scandal. Somehow he always bounces back. How does he do it? And how might we mere mortals elevate our piffling lives to greatness? Unhinged: Life Lessons from Boris Johnson is a guide to how the man has conducted his life, and how we can take useful guidance to enhance our own. How to trivialise everything with buffoonery, for example. How to make rich and influential friends. How to smash everything to pieces and then try to fix it and then smash it again and again. The book will concentrate on the really good stuff and simply ignore the rest, like a discarded girlfriend.Comedy writer Ian Martin ( The Thick of It, Veep ) offers readers a re-assessment of Boris Johnson, who has so much to teach us. Published as a parody companion volume to Johnson''s own extremely honest account of the last few years, Unhinged: Life Lessons from Boris Johnson is full of inspiring stories from his illustrious career. Here are easy-to-recreate social gambits, life rules and some great excuses that''ll get you out of all sorts of tricky situations. Let''s all pay him the respect he deserves. Let our motto be: Be More Boris!

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Ian Martin is an Emmy award-winning comedy writer and producer. His screen credits include the BAFTA-winning BBC series The Thick of It (for which he was originally brought in by Armando Iannucci as 'swearing consultant'); BAFTA-nominated The Death of Stalin (National Society of Film Critics Award, Best Screenplay); the multi-Emmy award-winning Veep (for which he won an Emmy and two Writers Guild of America Awards) and HBO's Avenue 5. He also wrote for the Oscar-nominated film In The Loop. His comedy-drama The Hartlepool Spy won the Tinniswood Award for Best Radio Drama in 2020. He has written for the Architects' Journal, New Statesman, the Observer and the Guardian. His experimental prose poem PANIC was set as a GCSE English question in 1998. From 20002005 he edited the cult satirical website martian.fm. His previous books include Epic Space, The Coalition Chronicles and Lost In The Attic. He lives in Lancaster, where he runs a primary school writing workshop. The workshop's first screenplay Tig was shot and released as a short film in 2024.

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Be more Boris thanks to this parody collection of invaluable life lessons that will guarantee you success no matter what situation you might find yourself in