Tim Samuels is an award-winning documentary filmmaker, BBC broadcaster and journalist. He has won three Royal Television Society awards and best documentary at the World Television Festival. Along the way, for a film, he formed the world's oldest rock group The Zimmers. Born in Manchester, he is now a soft southerner living in London.
Tim Samuels knows it isn't always easy to be a man. In a disarmingly honest and funny way, he sets about revealing and challenging many of the ways men now find themselves living - taking on everything from war, religion and pornography, to fatherhood and relationships. The book is important as well as charming: something for many men, and as importantly women, to read, learn and be consoled by. * Alain de Botton * So THAT'S what they're thinking, a fascinating peep behind the curtains of the 21st century male psyche... Hilarious, witty, insightful, and unique * Helen Fielding, author of Bridget Jones * Insightful, funny, and honest, Who Stole My Spear? is a great guide not to Real Man but to real men * David Baddiel * I laughed a lot. And cried some, but only on the inside. Which is where a man cries * David Duchovny * A soul-baring attempt to figure out what it means to be masculine * Louis Theroux *