The Stretchford Chronicles: 25 Years of Peter Simple

by Peter Simple, Michael Wharton

As Kingsley Amis says in his introduction: "This book is a treasure-house of truth, fantasy and wit."

For twenty-five years Peter Simple's Way of the World column in The Daily Telegraph has combined hilarity with an attack on all the pretensions and hypocrisy, all that is "trendy" and "up-to-date" and taken for granted in the modern world.

The last home of lost causes, the bitter enemy of the car, the airport, television, motorways and women's liberation, Peter Simple's writing is unmatched in its originality, brilliance and penetration.

And above all, as Kingsley Amis reminds us, "we are talking about some of the funniest writing of our time."

288 pages, Paperback

First published September 1, 1981

About the author

Peter Simple is the putative author of the "Way of the World" column in The Daily Telegraph, but is in fact a pen name for a series of writers, most notably Michael Wharton.

Reviews

[Páidi · Rating 5 out of 5]

amazing to see the same concerns being raised today as 50 years ago. Society is getting worse. Some of his complaints are just and come tho pass. One thing he got wrong was believing the British would never go down the road of taking offence at everything!!