The Times Diary at 50 by Patrick Kidd
Over the past 50 years, The Times Diary has provided a daily dose of mirth, gossip, innuendo and anecdote from the pens of such writers as Ion Trewin, Michael Leapman, a brace of Corens (Alan and Giles) and Hugo Rifkind.‘Patrick Kidd has picked the best of the Column with items that will amaze and astonish, hard to imagine anyone reading this collection without laughing out loud every page or twoAn absolutely essential Christmas stocking treasure for every Times reader.’ - Sue Baker (Love Reading)
‘I found it fascinating to look back at some of the earlier items, and note (with help from Kidd’s footnotes) when people who would go on to be famous and/or infamous were first mentioned in the diary.’ - Arnie Wilson (Huffington Post)
Editor of TMS, the Times Diary column, since 2013 and is also the paper's political sketch-writer. He joined the paper in 2001 as junior Diary flunkey under Giles Coren, working his way up to lackey before moving on to be a property journalist for three years. He has since written for most sections of the paper, including news, features and sport. He covered the London Olympics in 2012, the same year he was shortlisted in the Sports Journalism Awards, and has published two books before this anthology: The Best of Enemies (with Peter McGuinness), on the sporting rivalry between England and Australia, and The Worst of Rugby.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780008205522 |
| ISBN 10 | 0008205523 |
| Title | The Times Diary at 50 |
| Author | Patrick Kidd |
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| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | HarperCollins Publishers |
| Year published | 2016-10-06 |
| Number of pages | 256 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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