A twelve-stage sleigh ride through the best, worst, strangest and funniest parts of Christmas. With cultural icons saluted, national habits dissected and personal reminiscences from those who’ve eaten all the mince pies and lived to tell the tale. A twelve-stage sleigh ride through the best, worst, strangest and funniest parts of Christmas. With cultural icons saluted, national habits dissected and personal reminiscences from those who’ve eaten all the mince pies and lived to tell the tale. The essential Christmas stocking filler for anyone who’s ever spent their christmas on a deflating air bed in their parents’ spare room, wedged up against the washing machine come Christmas Eve and wondering why this Christmas, just like every year, doesn’t look like the ones on the telly. ‘Funny, touching and ludicrously British.’India Knight Reviews for Rhodri’s previous work: 'Love it. It's like a comedy toilet book written by Kafka'Jon Ronson ‘Very funny’Al Murray ‘A hilarious little book’Heat magazine Twelve Days of Discomfort and Joy Rhodri Marsden is a writer and musician based in London. A columnist for The Independent for more than a decade, he writes features, books and opinion pieces about subjects as varied as bad dates, rude place names, USB cables, crumpets, perfume and anxiety. He plays in hardy perennial post-punk band Scritti Politti and Britain’s best-loved TV theme covers band Dream Themes, and he won the under-10 piano category at the 1980 Watford Music Festival with a scintillating performance of a piece called "Silver Trumpets". Twelve Days of Discomfort and Joy - Rhodri has organically amassed nearly 50,000 devoted and engaged Twitter followers. Rhodri will be using his platform to its full advantage to encourage his fans to buy the book. - Rhodri writes regularly for The Independent (for which he was formerly a columnist for 10 years), The Guardian and BBC Good Food - Aimed at the gifting market which has dominated the charts for the last two Autumns, Have Yourself a Very British Christmas is set to be the perfect humour gift this Christmas. Books that celebrate British curmudgeonliness and eccentricity such as VERY BRITISH PROBLEMS (102k), MIDDLE CLASS PROBLEMS (12k), HOW TO BE A BRIT (41k), and WATCHING THE ENGLISH (36k) are at the top of the Christmas stocking-filler wishlist year on year - For the last 3 years, Rhodri has been running the #duvetknowitschristmas hashtag from which HAVE YOURSELF A VERY BRITISH CHRISTMAS was spawned, where people send in photos of the spare rooms they’ve been relegated to over the festive period. Rhodri’s followers now request #duvetknowitschristmas every year (and 2018 will be no exception – perfect for driving pre-orders in the run-up to Christmas) - #duvetknowitschristmas has already featured in The Telegraph, The Metro, Buzzfeed and Huffington Post, among others - There will be an innovative marketing campaign which will draw big attention to the book. Competition: Five at the Office Christmas Party;Enid Blyton for Grown Ups;Twas the Nightshift Before;Do They Know It’s Yet?;And So This Is;Why Mummy Drinks At;The Shite before. By:Sarah Morgan;Adam Kay;James Crookes;Brian Bilston;Gill Sims;Serena Terry
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