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Unhinged

A Parody

Ian Martin

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English
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
04 February 2025
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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Imprint:   Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Country of Publication:   United Kingdom
Edition:   Unabridged edition
Dimensions:   Height: 202mm,  Width: 132mm,  Spine: 14mm
Weight:   220g
ISBN:   9781526686633
ISBN 10:   1526686635
Pages:   128
Publication Date:  
Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active

Ian is an Emmy and WGA award winning writer. He was nominated for two BAFTAs and won the National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Screenplay for co-writing the feature film The Death of Stalin for Armando Iannucci. The film opened TIFF and was a Spotlight film at Sundance and a huge success at the box office. Ian also won an Emmy and two WGA awards for his writing on Armando Iannucci's Veep where he wrote across 5 series. He was also a core member of all series of the BAFTA winning comedy series The Thick of It (and was the ""swearing consultant"" as well!), and wrote additional material on feature film In the Loop. He also wrote across the first and second series of Avenue 5 for HBO.

Reviews for Unhinged: A Parody

He has produced a traumatically funny book that takes its place in the noble and historic pantheon of British political satire. Unhinged is a welcome and convincing alternative to the ordeal of Unleashed, for which a nation and particularly its book reviewers are profoundly grateful * New European * 'From the pen of the genius Ian Martin - I cannot tell you how f***king funny is it' * John Niven * Laughed so much I nearly forgot the last eight years! * Otto English *


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