IT'S NOT A RUNNER BEAN
by Mark Steel
£5.99 – 1 899344 12 8
C-format (216mm x 135mm) paperback original

Subtitled 'Dispatches from a Slightly Successful Comedian', this passionate, opinionated and extremely funny book offers a view of life as observed from the other side of the artist's microphone. Mark Steel is the former Guardian columnist, star of Radio Four's award-winning Mark Steel Solutionand the Mark Steel Lectureand a regular on TV and radio.

Friends write:
"I never thought a socialist could be funny until I met Mark Steel." - Ned Sherrin

"A terrific book. I have never read any other book about comedy written by someone with a sense of humour." - Jeremy Hardy, Socialist Review

"Hugely funny." - Time Out

"I wish I'd had this to read when I was shagging him." - Jo Brand

"Steel is actually hilariously really funny. He also likes cricket, a pint and revolutionary socialism. In other words, he is the perfect human being and I want to stalk him." - Nicholas Lezard, The Guardian

MARK STEEL: Apart from touring the theatres and arts centres of Britain with his one-man show - like contemporaries Jack Dee, Lee Evans and Jo Brand, he has graduated from appearing in comedy clubs - and invariably selling every seat, Mark Steel hosts his own Radio 4 series, The Mark Steel Solution, which was followed by the Mark Steel Lectures and is a regular guest on Radio 4's Loose Ends and The News Quiz, Radio 1FM's Mark Radcliffe Show and on various other TV and radio programmes. He has written regular columns for The Guardian, The Socialist Worker and an obscure cricket magazine.

Read an extract from It's Not A Runner Bean

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