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(Spectator )Not a writer who bombards you with tales of his triumphs, but a shrewd watcher from the wings, with some great jokes and excellent stories and insights, especially about politicians
(Sunday Telegraph )Equally engaging if at a slightly more flippant level, is Simon Hoggart's A Long Lunch. Described by its author as 'in no way a life of me', it is still the best journalistic memoir since the late Alan Watkins A Short Walk Down Fleet Street of a decade ago
(New Statesman, Books of the Year )Product Description
A host of memories from Simon Hoggart’s forty-plus years in journalism.
Simon reveals what Alan Clark said about Melvyn Bragg, what really happened at the Lady Chatterley trial, what Cherie Blair said to him and how he riposted, as well as the time John Sergeant drove a flight attendant to a fury, what happened when he mixed a drink for W. H. Auden and the day Enoch Powell met Bill Haley.
A Long Lunch is often hilarious, while also being full of wisdom and insight. Simon has long been regarded as one of our sharpest and wittiest commentators. These memories cover his years in Parliament, Northern Ireland, around the world and on Radio 4, where for twelve years he chaired the much-loved News Quiz.
From behind the scenes in Parliament, roving across America and bizarre meetings in TV studios, Simon Hoggart entertains, informs and delights.
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16 of 16 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Very Entertaining,
This review is from: A Long Lunch: My Stories and I'm Sticking to Them (Hardcover)
This bright and very fast-flowing book will delight many as a present, but you'll enjoy it yourself, too, if you appreciate Mr Hoggart's unforced with and insights. Here he writes with great flair and fun about some of the characters he has encountered during his interesting life and career, ranging from WH Auden to, er, Jeffrey Archer, and he also recalls many amusing stories about the various shows and publications he has worked on or for. I read this very quickly and ended wanting more, but you could also dip into it as and when you have a spare moment that requires a bit of brightening. All in all it's a treat. Thank you, Mr Hoggart!
7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
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This is a five-star lunch!,
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This review is from: A Long Lunch: My Stories and I'm Sticking to Them (Hardcover)
I have been reading this book before going to sleep, and I have laughed hard enough to scatter the cat and wake my wife. Then in the morning I read her (my wife, not the cat) the same passages out loud.The book is not a pure memoir, but a recollection, as you would hear over a delightful lunch with wine, a cheese course, and port, of persons and places that Simon has come across in his life and as a celebrated Guardian reporter and columnist. There are terrific stories about the British royal family, Margaret Thatcher, Ronald Reagan, Tony Blair, many journalists (nearly all of them quirky), and his travels across Africa, Australia, and North America. I love the accounts of his sports writing in Manchester, and his boyhood year in America. He's met everyone, but the book is absent of name dropping. Each vignette is perfectly pitched, and you will find yourself, if not shaking the bed with laughter, than at least hoping that the book will last forever. This is a book for Christmas, Easter, summer holiday, the train to work, a book club, your friend's birthday, or just to cheer up a winter's night. When you get it, you will tell your friends, and hope they tell their friends. It's that good. Buy it.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
laughter and chuckling,
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This review is from: A Long Lunch: My Stories and I'm Sticking to Them (Hardcover)
bought this for my husband for Christmas and he has been chuckling ever sinceso I am assuming it is good!
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