The third book in the bestselling and hilarious series of ‘Am I Alone . . . ?’ books
From bin Laden to Pippa Middleton’s bottom, and from riots to Rebekah Wade, Telegraph readers offer their maverick and hilarious take on the year’s events, in the letters the paper didn’t publish, because they were just too off-the-wall, too outrageous, or too waggish for an august Letters page. The first two volumes of unpublished letters to the Daily Telegraph, Am I Alone in Thinking? and I Could Go On . . . have both been Christmas bestsellers, and sold well in excess of 100,000 copies. Once again, it will be an essential Christmas present to give or to receive.
SIR - A question for your male readers: which would you rather be invited to – the Royal wedding, or one of Silvio Berlusconi’s bunga bunga parties?
SIR - All these years I have lived under the impression that Middleton Bottom was a rural west-country village.
SIR - It is a pity Osama bin Laden was not taken alive. He could have been sentenced to go through airport security for the rest of his life.
SIR - May I suggest that if the police are to use water cannon to disperse rioting students, they include some soap in the tank?
SIR - Is a super-injunction the morning-after pill for celebrities?
I Rest My Case: Unpublished Letters to The Daily Telegraph
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'These unpublished missives are as whimsical, hilariously off-message and downright rude as one has come to expect from the Telegraph’s discerning readers…an essential Christmas gift.’
(Lancashire Evening Post )‘The ideal present for those who relish the querulous, quirky and quaint.’
(Oxford Times )‘Extremely enjoyable reading…there is a great deal of subtle English wit’
(Good Book Guide )About the Author
Iain Hollinghsead 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. He has edited four bestselling collections of unpublished letters from the Daily Telegraph for Aurum.
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By Tilly
Format:Hardcover
Our country is full of clever, witty people and after a surfeit of bad news it was a delight to read the opinions of people,obviously wise, who agree with me. I thought it would be interesting but I actually laughed out loud and insisted in reading them to everyone friends, children and grandchildren, all of whom understood and appreciated them. Long may readers letter pages continue. Tilly.
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
By R. P. Slater
Format:Hardcover
Yet again the staff of the Daily Telegraph shoot themselves in the foot by publishing the side-splittingly funny sweepings from the cutting room floor. The actual letters page in the paper is nothing like as imaginative, insightful, witty and far ranging as the content of this book, gleaned as it was from the rejects pile.
A lovely book and proof, if proof were needed, that the newspaper-reading public are often wiser that the newspaper-writing professionals.
(and no.....I'm not featured in the book!)
A lovely book and proof, if proof were needed, that the newspaper-reading public are often wiser that the newspaper-writing professionals.
(and no.....I'm not featured in the book!)
26 of 29 people found the following review helpful
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A Christmas treat or it would be if we had the will power to wait till 25/12. Our great fear is that the Telegraph will stop publishing this title.
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Very Funny!
Perfect for when the worlds going crazy around you and you need to read about people with 'not enough to worry about'!
Published 15 days ago by Bluebelle
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Great read
I might actually have to read the paper if the quality of the letters printed are of equal quality to the letters unpublished.
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A delightful anthology from curmudgeonly curtain twitchers.
This and "Am I Alone in Thinking?" now have pride of place in our loo. For us on the left it's fun to read Daily Bellylaugh readers get their knickers in a twist over the... Read more
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Third book of Telegraph series
This collection of "Letters to the Editor" from "Telegraph" readers is as enjoyable as the previous books in the series and shows what a great sense of humour the... Read more
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If you don't know the Daily Telegraph letter's page, you should get these books. Vivid and endearing word pictures of how and what people really think.
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These are very good books. So good for picking up and reading at any time. When you need a bit of a lift
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The best book in the world mostly if I am modest.....sorry honest because I am in it ha ha boom boom
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All ok with this purchase - came on time and as advertised - was a gift and so can't comment on the actual book
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I Rest My Case - unpublished letters to The Daily Telegraph.
I thoroughly enjoy this series of books. Shows what is going on at a given time in recent history and what a mixed group of readers think. Read more
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Good morning!
To restore my belief in the great British public, these letters certainly do that! Great accompaniment to a nice cup of coffee
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