So That Went Well...: Unpublished Letters to the Daily Telegraph

Unpublished Letters to The Daily Telegraph #11

by Kate Moore (Editor)

New correspondence from the Telegraph's best-selling series.

In a year in which even the most seasoned commentators have struggled to keep pace with the news cycle, letter writers to The Daily Telegraph have once again provided their refreshing take on events. Readers of the Telegraph Letters Page will be fondly aware of the eclectic combination of learned wisdom, wistful nostalgia and robust good sense that characterise its correspondence. Baffled, furious, defiant, mischievous, they inveigh and speculate on every subject under the sun, from the rubbish on television these days to the venality of our MPs. With an agenda as enticing as ever, the eleventh book in the bestselling Unpublished Letters series will prove, once again, that the Telegraph’s readers have an astute sense of what really matters. 

Genres: Nonfiction

192 pages, Hardcover

Published November 19, 2019

About the author

KATE MOORE started writing obituaries for The Daily Telegraph in 2013 and joined the Letters desk as an assistant editor the following year. She now splits her time between the two departments. Kate edited So, That Went Well..., the 2019 collection of unpublished letters.

(Source: Amazon.)

Reviews

[John · Rating 1 out of 5]

I just wanted a few post-Christmas chuckles but the further I went with this book the more I hated it. Mostly unfunny, and infested by a number of apparently self-opinionated xenophobes. I can imagine some at their local golf club bar or W.I. meeting, bragging about having sent off another of their "bons mots" to the 'Daily Telegraph'. The best one can say is that at least none of this collection of letters were actually published.

[Renita D'Silva · Rating 5 out of 5]

Wonderful

[Renita D'Silva · Rating 5 out of 5]

Wonderful

[Emily · Rating 4 out of 5]

I think I found LA's year's book funnier. It's strange because this year has been so absurd that there should have been more material. However the book was published in October, before the general election in December when so much was resolved. Maybe people were just too stressed to enjoy the absurdities of what was 2019! Fortunately, the electorate was far more sensible than we feared. Roll on next year's copy. The relief will be palpable.

[Renita D'Silva · Rating 5 out of 5]

Wonderful

[Paula Corker · Rating 1 out of 5]

1.5 stars because I enjoyed one or two of the letters

[mrsbookburnee Niamh Burnett · Rating 3 out of 5]

A light heart read, some of the letters sent in were hilarious, the politics session was a bit too long.

[Bert Bruins · Rating 4 out of 5]

There are many funny unpublished letters in this collection and many tediously rightwing old codgers writing to the editor too, trying to be funny....