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John O'Farrell

(b.1962)

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.

Novels

   The Best a Man Can Get (2000)
   This Is Your Life (2002)
   May Contain Nuts (2005)
   The Man Who Forgot His Wife (2012)
   There's Only Two David Beckhams (2015)
   Family Politics (2024)

Non fiction

   Have I Got 1997 for You (1996) (with Mark Burton, Angus Deayton, Ian Hislop, Paul Merton, Robert Fraser Steele and Colin Swash)
   Things Can Only Get Better (1998)
   Global Village Idiot (2001)
   I Blame the Scapegoats (2003)
   I Have A Bream (2007)
   An Utterly Impartial History of Britain (2007)
   Isle of Wight to Get Ceefax (2008)
   An Utterly Exasperated History of Modern Britain (2009)
   A History of Capitalism According to the Jubilee Line (2013)
   Things Can Only Get Worse (2017)

Awards

	Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for Comic Writing Best Novel nominee (2006) : May Contain Nuts
	Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for Comic Writing Best Novel nominee (2012) : The Man Who Forgot His Wife

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