To Hell In A Handcart

by Richard Littlejohn

Richard Littlejohn exposes the madness of modern Britain in this thrill-packed rollercoaster ride of a novel, bursting with all the humour and irreverence that have made him Britain’s No 1 newspaper columnist. What right do you have to protect your family and property from violent criminals? Richard Littlejohn has explored this and other burning social issues in his work as a journalist. Now he takes it even further in a fast-paced powerhouse of a novel, part polemic, part comedy, part tragedy. Mickey French is just an ordinary bloke, an ex-cop struggling to look after his family as self-righteous do-gooders and bungling bureaucrats bring the country to its knees. But Mickey’s life is turned upside down when he is attacked in his own home and forced to defend himself. His arrest for murder is front-page news, and soon the whole nation is watching as he battles for justice, lost in a maze of dodgy lawyers, politically correct police officers, bogus asylum-seekers, self-publicising politicians, shameless journalists and rabble-rousing shock-jocks.

425 pages, Paperback

First published December 1, 2001

About the author

Richard Littlejohn is an award-winning journalist and broadcaster, andauthor of three best-selling books. His twice-weekly columns in the Daily Mail and the Sun earned him a place in the inaugural Newspaper Hall of Fame as one of the most influential journalists of the past 40 years. He has been Fleet Street's Columnist of the Year and was named Irritant of the Year by the BBC's What The Papers Say awards for his unrivalled ability to get up the noses of the Establishment. He has written for London's Evening Standard, Punch and the Spectator

His extensive radio and television work has brought him both a Sony award and a Silver Rose of Montreux.

Reviews

[Carlos Hughes]

Spoiler alert: It's shit!

Am I the first one to review this pile of shite? Goody! Awful bigoted tripe that a few trees sacrificed their time on earth for. Would give it minus 26 stars if I could, still - it is far better than his crappy columns in the Daily Mail.

NB: I read it for a bet, and I also bought it from a charity shop, so Richard Littlejohn hasn't benefited from this review of his crap writing in any way at all.

[Robert Burns]

Excellent read

Fiction or faction who knows , once I started reading it I couldn't put it down
pity the same common sense didn't apply in the Tony Martin case as he to had the right to defend himself in his own home

[Stephen John Clutterbuck]

Disappointing rubbish!