What Just Happened?!

Review The most lethal, vital, screamingly funny truth-teller of our time. Thank fuck for Marina Hyde. -- Phoebe Waller-Bridge As witty as it is withering, what a wonderful collection. Hyde is the most brilliantly funny columnist of our time. -- Gary Lineker It’s a scientific FACT: Marina Hyde is Britain’s funniest writer. Her columns are the solid-silver lining of Britain’s political shitstorm. -- Caitlin Moran Marina Hyde is a joyous rallying voice in British journalism. She hoses the establishment with a torrent of precisely hilarious/bitchy/up to the minute prose. Her tone is exasperated outrage. Her writing seems to come at you like it was being whispered into your ear as you watch, live, the antics of the rich and powerful, all the time suppressing a guffaw. -- Grayson Perry An infinite number of gag-writers, working all day in a gag factory, couldn’t come up with any of the perfectly-formed one-liners that populate Marina Hyde’s hilarious writing. But behind the wit lurks real anger, argument, exasperation and intelligence. No-one comes closer to articulating just what has gone so profoundly wrong in British politics at the moment. Her writing is more than a gentle poke in the ribs: it’s a well-wrought and deftly aimed smash in the teeth. -- Armando Iannucci One of the funniest and most outraged columnists and political commentators. -- Kirsty Wark She's a genius. -- Ed Miliband ― Reasons to be Cheerful podcast [Hyde's] collected columns demonstrate her wit at its sulphur-tongued best . . . She is, quite simply, lethally funny . . . Hyde’s riffs crackle with the adrenaline rush of a live gig. They are also electrified, like a hot-wired car, by the sudden ignition that happens in her brain as apparently disparate ideas bump together and strike sparks . . . A supremely artful and literally incisive writer, Hyde is aware of the damage words can do. -- Peter Conrad ― Observer This country’s foremost living satirist, one who – through Brexit, four Tory prime ministers, Trump and a global pandemic, via narcissistic celebrities, evil billionaires, disgraced princes, and, of course, spineless politicians – has become the chief chronicler of our stranger-than-fiction times . . . The first stop for anyone looking for comedic peace of mind in a mind-bending news cycle. -- Olivia Marks ― Vogue Product Description THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER Relive the delusional fever-dream of the modern era. 'Thank f*ck for Marina Hyde: the most lethal, vital, screamingly funny truth-teller of our time.' PHOEBE WALLER-BRIDGE 'The most brilliantly funny columnist of our time.' GARY LINEKER 'It’s a scientific FACT: Marina Hyde is Britain’s funniest writer.' CAITLIN MORAN No other writer is more suited to chronicling the absurd times in which we live. In What Just Happened?! Marina Hyde slashes her way through the hellscape of post-referendum politics, where the chaos never stops. Clamber aboard as we relive every inspirational moment of magic, from David Cameron to Theresa May to Boris Johnson. Marvel at the sights, from Trumpian WTF-ery to celebrity twattery. And boggle at the cast of characters: Hollywood sex offenders, populists, sporting heroes (and villains), dastardly dukes, media barons, movie stars, reality TV monsters, billionaires, police officers, various princes and princesses, wicked advisers, philanthropists, fauxlanthropists, telly chefs, and (naturally) Gwyneth Paltrow. It’s the full state banquet of crazy – and you’re most cordially invited. Drawn from her spectacularly funny Guardian columns, What Just Happened?! is a welcome blast of humour and sanity in a world where reality has become stranger than fiction. 'A joyous rallying voice in British journalism.' GRAYSON PERRY ‘An infinite number of gag-writers, working all day in a gag factory, couldn’t come up with any of the perfectly-formed one-liners that populate Marina Hyde’s hilarious writing . . . But behind the wit lurks real anger, argument, exasperation a