Author(s): Chris Addison

Humour

These are dark days. The world is seething with imbeciles and poltroons. Everywhere the careless and thoughtless are charging about the place in hulking 4X4s, or inviting Channel 4 to come around rather than clean their own homes. So comedian Chris Addison has written "Cautionary Tales for Grown-Ups" - poems in the style of Hilaire Belloc or Struwelpeter, to illustrate the dangers of modern behaviour. The tales include: Valerie, who boasted of her family on Classic FM Lunchtime Requests; Endymion Black, who texted all day long and was crushed under the weight of his own thumb; and Sarah-Jane, who got all her opinions from the papers and was frightened to death. Sparklingly wicked and cunningly illustrated, this is a hilarious Struwelpeter for the twenty-first century.