The Very Best of Fesshole: Britain Confesses Anonymously

by Rob Manuel

*THE PERFECT FATHER'S DAY GIFT*'Puerile, reprehensible and very, very funny' Adam Kay'I love Fesshole. Every single one is a masterclass in storytelling' Jay Rayner'Hilarious! The only guide any alien would need to find out what humans are really like' David Schneider'The wild, the wonderful, the frankly unbelievable and the downright disgusting. Under the anonymity of the internet people confess their most embarrassing secrets and it might not be good for their souls, but it's great for the readers!' Richard K HerringIt's confession time, folks! Things have been building up inside of you for too long. Secrets you thought you'd never share with another soul are bubbling to the surface begging for release.And where better to let it all out (/laugh at someone else's misfortune) than on the internet.Fesshole is a Twitter account (@fesshole) which allows people to anonymously confess their innermost thoughts, deepest, darkest secrets, and their most outrageously funny faux pas - but will the online world absolve you of your sins?This book contains the greatest confessions to date, and a whole heap of new ones.After all, if you can't confide in strangers on the internet, who can you tell?

Genres: Humor, Nonfiction, Comedy

272 pages, Hardcover

Published October 27, 2022

Reviews

[David Meiklejohn · Rating 3 out of 5]

Fesshole is a Twitter feed of anonymous confessions, and this book is a compilation of the best ones. Simple as that. There are plenty of funny confessions, and even a few thoughtful ones. The book puts them in categories, but there are such a variety that it might as well have just shown them randomly.

[Jade Belcher · Rating 5 out of 5]

Easy to read, funny book with some real laugh out loud moments, I really enjoyed reading!

[James · Rating 4 out of 5]

Very funny

Rather entertaining and shocking in equal measure - our fellow humans are strange beasts. Worth a read and be prepared to literally laugh out loud.

[Carly · Rating 4 out of 5]

Its very funny, but it reminds me not to eat at people's houses or shake hands.

[Kimmy C · Rating 4 out of 5]

As an avid follower of Fesshole until I deleted Twitter, this was an amusing way to keep in touch with what people have to say or make up. The in-jokes are there, kitchen sofa et al, and there was quite a bit of stuff I’d not read. Sniggerworthy.

[Colin Murtagh · Rating 4 out of 5]

It feels like I've read this twice. The book is a collection of confessions sent to Fesshole, a Twitter account run by Rob Manuel, where you can anonymously confess to anything you like, and people do.
The book is split into 10 sections, ranging from crime and neighbours, through to family, and of course sex. Each section is then split further, which just breaks up the book a little.
The author has said, he gets so many confessions through, he only picks the best, unique ones. This does lay the book open a little to having some of the confessions being a little difficult to believe.
It is an anthology though, so to be fair if there are a couple you don't quite like, there's another one following straight after. There are so many, and on such a wide range of topics, that it's almost a guarantee that there will be something in here that will make you laugh. And if that doesn't convince you, there are some beautiful illustrations in there as well.
This is the perfect toilet book. Great for just dipping into

[James R. · Rating 4 out of 5]

A collection of tweets from the Fesshole account that curates confessions from anonymous Brits. The tweets have been arranged around themes but otherwise you could just read back the timeline of the Twitter account for the same content. However, I found having these confessions organised income place quite compulsive reading and even though it's not exactly high brow, I still found myself chuckling to myself at the more disgusting confessions.

[Adam Dawson · Rating 5 out of 5]

5 / 5 for 'The Very Best Of Fesshole' by Rob Manuel

A fantastic collection of the funniest, most shocking and most touching of the thousands of anonymous confessions sent into the now famous "Fesshole" Twitter page. Not a dull page in this book - it's genuinely engrossing and humorous from the first page to the last.

5 / 5

[Campbell Kennedy · Rating 5 out of 5]

funny even if you read them all on twitter first time

Great fun as always, I did wait for the 99p kindle offer but I did send a number of sausages during lockdown as it was a highlight.

[Ben Fish · Rating 4 out of 5]

Had me pissing myself with laughter numerous times!

Well worth a read! Couldn't stop laughing numerous times reading this book, and at other times what is written is highly sentimental, and almost made me cry.

Great book!

[Peyotitlan · Rating 5 out of 5]

An absolute joy! How I've laughed!

Follow the account on twitter and always manages to cheer me up!
A great laugh reading these non stop. Only sad to have finished it. Long may live Fesshole and look forward to further compilation books!

[Judith · Rating 4 out of 5]

Some real laugh-out-loud bits in this. Well worth reading if you need a laugh.

[Polis Princess · Rating 5 out of 5]

very funny!!

[Amy Stringer · Rating 4 out of 5]

An entertaining read on a very long coach trip

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I enjoyed, but it is very simple

[Sharron Joy Reads · Rating 4 out of 5]

Very funny and a welcome distraction on a boring day!

[Gareth Manuel · Rating 4 out of 5]

Solidly funny antidotes and confessions. Perfect to flick through.

[Susie · Rating 5 out of 5]

Hilarious!

[Andrea Bryan · Rating 5 out of 5]

Hysterical

Staying with my sister, tried to read some out loud to her... failed miserably! Was laughing so hard, I was crying and could barely speak.

[Drew Wheeler · Rating 3 out of 5]

3.5 rating. An easy-to-read compilation of anonymous confessions that is sure to make you cringe, laugh and smile. Nothing groundbreaking but a great stocking filler nonetheless.

[Matthew · Rating 5 out of 5]

Loved it from start to finish, found this on twitter and find myself endlessly scrolling just to keep reading the stories

[Alan Thornhill · Rating 5 out of 5]

Rarely have I laughed so much. I don't even care if these anecdotes are made up.

[Michael Owens · Rating 4 out of 5]

First-rate toilet book and better than scrolling through twitter

[Terry Nash · Rating 1 out of 5]

It didn’t quite meet my expectations and was less enjoyable than I had hoped.

[Lukey · Rating 5 out of 5]

A great holiday read which left me chuckling by the pool.

[Matthew · Rating 5 out of 5]

Loved this book just as much as the other one, the stories and wit are just pure class, you laugh, you cringe, and you enjoy the shock of the confessions

[Philip Greet · Rating 5 out of 5]

Essential reading

Brilliant book, full of light & shades of life.

Read it with a Steve Merchant voice (when he reads out Karl’s diary),

[Clive Barnard · Rating 5 out of 5]

Fun, sad and rude...All in All, worth it

This book is hilarious in places, stunning in others...I mean how could someone do that. Made visits to the littlest room more interesting.

[Emily · Rating 2 out of 5]

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Some of this was funny, but most of it was grim. Like, really, really grim and yet I still kept reading...

[Dan · Rating 5 out of 5]

I'm only a quarter of the way through but can report that this is the funniest thing of its kind (the technical term is bathroom reading) since John Train's near-legendary "Remarkable Names of Real People." I'm in bed with the flu and every time I laugh I have a coughing fit and get a stabbing pain in my back, but I'm not quitting.