商品簡介
`SIR -- Am I alone in wishing for an episode of the BBC's Countryfile in which a presenter's offer to "lend a hand" is turned down?'
`SIR -- I see in your Cyprus Bailout Live blog, at 13:55, a reference to the "Finish" [sic] Europe Minister". Thank goodness it is all over'
A letters page may seem antiquated in an era of texting and tweets, yet the Telegraph's letters writers -- often bemused, sometimes furious, always erudite -- are a breed apart. `Writing to the Telegraph lets off steam,' confesses one regular correspondent -- and thank goodness for the rest of us that it does. Now that anyone can publish their opinions online, the Telegraph letters page remains a rare bastion of well-written, carefully edited wit on the topics of the day
In this fifth volume of wise, waggish and downright outrageous letters for which there wasn't enough space -- or editorial stomach -- in the paper, we offer another hilariously alternative review of the year
With an agenda as enticing as ever, ranging from Chris Huhne's speeding points to a royal baby, a new Pope to Andy Murray, it will prove, once again, that the Telegraph's letters writers have an astute sense of what really matters.
作者簡介
Iain Hollingshead spent two years on the Letters to the Editor desk before becoming a full-time feature writer for The Daily Telegraph. His more serious assignments have included reporting on the student riots in London and interviewing everyone from Michael Atherton to Gurkha veterans to a member of Seal Team Six, the elite unit which killed Osama bin Laden
His less serious assignments have included taking a bath in Las Vegas with six albino rabbits, spending three days behind the scenes at the Miss England competition, camping outside Westminster Abbey for the Royal Wedding, eating in five Michelin starred restaurants in one day, learning to flirt in Pizza Express, learning to dance in Mamma Mia!, performing stand-up comedy to 300 eight-year-olds, training with the Royal Marines, climbing into a Spitfire and experiencing a Brighton nudist beach first-hand
He now writes freelance for the paper and has edited four bestselling collections of unpublished letters to The Daily Telegraph for Aurum
