Coalition Book: Cartoon Catalogue of Britain's Worst Government in 200 Years

by Martin Rowson, Will Self

Since 2010, Martin Rowson has been documenting the highs and lows – mainly the lows – of the Tory-Lib Dem coalition week after week in The Guardian, as well as in The Morning Star, Tribune and many other publications. This book collects Rowson’s best, most brutally funny, cartoons from a period that began with a “big, open, comprehensive offer” to Nick Clegg, continued on through riots, phone-hacking, double-dip recession, and endless debates on Europe, and will end (perhaps) with the general election in 2015. Accompanied by witty explanatory text, The Coalition Book takes a biting satirical look at Cameron and Clegg’s first – and perhaps last – five years in charge. The book contains a foreword by Will Self.

192 pages, Hardcover

First published September 18, 2014

About the author

Baptised as Martin George Edmund Rowson. Who's Who lists his interests as "cooking, drinking, ranting, atheism, zoos, collecting taxidermy".

Reviews

[Steve Gillway · Rating 5 out of 5]

A great distillation of vitriol and hatred aimed at the recent UK coalition government. He is particularly nasty to Clegg and Osbourne. A good thing to bear in mind on May 7th.