Isle of Wight to Get Ceefax: And Other Groundbreaking Stories from Newsbiscuit

by John O'Farrell

John O’Farrell has put together the best and funniest of his front page headline howlers in this collection of satirical news stories from the popular ezine, Newsbiscuit , which consistently delivers witty, fictitious news headlines across the globe seven days a week.

Genres: Humor

128 pages, Hardcover

First published November 6, 2008

About the author

John O'Farrell is the author of four novels: The Man Who Forgot His Wife, May Contain Nuts, This Is Your Life and The Best a Man Can Get. His novels have been translated into over twenty languages and have been adapted for radio and television. He has also written two best-selling history books: An Utterly Impartial History of Britain and An Utterly Exasperated History of Modern Britain, as well as a political memoir, Things Can Only Get Better and three collections of his column in The Guardian. A former comedy scriptwriter for such productions as Spitting Image, Room 101, Murder Most Horrid and Chicken Run, he is founder of the satirical website NewsBiscuit and can occasionally be spotted on such TV programmes as Grumpy Old Men, Question Time and Have I Got News for You.

Reviews

[Huw Evans · Rating 5 out of 5]

I live on the Isle of Wight, for my sins and the phrase that is often applied to us is, "Forty minutes across the water and Forty years back in time". Newsbiscuit is one of the better British satire websites and this excellent collection of its articles is funny without being offfensive, unless you come from the Isle of Wight!