What Will They Think Of Next...? Unpublished Letters to the Daily Telegraph

by Hollingshead, Iain

• ISBN13: 9781781312919
• ISBN10: 1781312915
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2014-11-01
• Publisher: Aurum Press

Summary

Readers of the Telegraph Letters Page will be fondly aware of the eclectic combination of learned wisdom, wistful nostalgia and robust good sense that characterise its correspondence.

But what of the 95 per cent of the paper's huge postbagÿthat never sees the light of day? Some of the best letters inevitably arrive too late for the 24/7 news cycle, or don't quite fit with the rest of the day's selection. Others are just a little too whimsical, or indeed too risqu?, to publish in a serious newspaper. And more than a few are completely and utterly (and wonderfully) mad.ÿ
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ThankfullyÿIain Hollingshead is on-hand to give the authors ofÿthe best unpublished letters theÿstage they so richlyÿdeserve. Baffled, furious, defiant, mischievous, they inveigh and speculate on every subject under the sun, from the rubbish on television these days to the venality of our MPs.

The sixth book in the bestselling Unpublished Letters series, with an agenda as enticing as ever,ÿWhat Will They Think of Next...?ÿwill prove, once again, that the Telegraph'sÿreaders have an astute sense of what really matters.

Author Biography

IAIN HOLLINGSHEAD spent two years on the Letters to the Editor desk before becoming a full-time feature writer for The Daily Telegraph. His more serious assignments have included reporting on the student riots in London and interviewing everyone from Michael Atherton to Gurkha veterans to a member of Seal Team Six, the elite unit which killed Osama bin Laden.His less serious assignments have included taking a bath in Las Vegas with six albino rabbits, spending three days behind the scenes at the Miss England competition, camping outside Westminster Abbey for the Royal Wedding, eating in five Michelin starred restaurants in one day, learning to flirt in Pizza Express, learning to Dance in Mamma Mia!, performing stand-up comedy to 300 eight-year-olds, training with the Royal Marines, climbing into a Spitfire and experiencing a Brighton nudist beach first hand. He now writes freelance for the paper. He has edited four bestselling collections of unpublished letters from the Daily Telegraph for Aurum.