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Marcus Berkmann


Born
July 14, 1960

Genre
Humour and Comedy, Nonfiction, Contemporary


Marcus Berkmann was educated at Highgate School and Worcester College in Oxford in the UK. He began his career as a freelance journalist, contributing to computer and gaming magazines such as Your Sinclair. In the 1990s, he had stints as television critic for the Daily Mail and the Sunday Express, and has written a monthly pop music column for The Spectator since 1987.

With his schoolfriend Harry Thompson, Berkmann scripted the BBC Radio comedy Lenin of the Rovers. He came to prominence with his novel Rain Men (1995), which humorously chronicles the formation and adventures of his own cricket-touring team, the Captain Scott Invitation XI.

Berkmann has continued to write newspaper and cricket magazine columns, such as the Last Man In column on ...more

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Average rating: 3.76 · 1,587 ratings · 185 reviews · 39 distinct works • Similar authors
Rain Men: The Madness of Cr...
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Fatherhood: The Truth
3.52 avg rating — 297 ratings — published 2005 — 9 editions
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Set Phasers to Stun: 50 Yea...
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A Shed of One's Own: Midlif...
3.60 avg rating — 163 ratings — published 2012 — 5 editions
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Zimmer Men: The Trials and ...
3.75 avg rating — 139 ratings — published 2005 — 6 editions
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Berkmann's Cricketing Misce...
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Brain Men : A Passion to Co...
3.70 avg rating — 43 ratings — published 1999 — 5 editions
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Berkmann's Pop Miscellany: ...
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The Spectator Book of Wit, ...
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Ashes to Ashes: 35 Years of...
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Rain Men: The Madness of Cr... Zimmer Men: The Trials and ...
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“We recognised that the youth demographic needed to be pursued, preferably with dogs.”
― Marcus Berkmann, Set Phasers to Stun: 50 Years of Star Trek
tags: dogs, youth
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“In art, questions are always more interesting than answers.”
― Marcus Berkmann, Set Phasers to Stun: 50 Years of Star Trek
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“Gene, you wouldn’t know a good story if it was tattooed on the end of your prick.”
― Marcus Berkmann, Set Phasers to Stun: 50 Years of Star Trek
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