Craig is the author of 18 books, and a prolific journalist. He has been writing his parodic diary in Private Eye since 1989. He is the only person ever to have won three different Press Awards – for best humorist, columnist and critic – in the same year.
He has been a columnist for, among others, The Guardian, The Times, The Spectator and The Daily Telegraph. He currently writes for The Daily Mail and the TheMail on Sunday. His last book, Ma’am Darling: 99 Glimpses of Princess Margaret won an international bestseller and won the James Tait Black Memorial Award, the South Bank Sky Arts Literature Award.
The Sunday Times Best Seller
- From the award-winning, bestselling author of Ma’am Darling: 99 Glimpses of Princess Margaret comes a fascinating, hilarious, kaleidoscopic biography of the Fab Four.
- Published to coincide with the 50 anniversary of Paul McCartney’s announcement of the break-up of the Beatles.
Hardback | 2 April 2020 | £20 | 4TH ESTATE
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One Two Three Four The Beatles in Time
‘A ridiculously enjoyable treat . . . Brown is such an infectiously jolly writer that you don’t even need to like the Beatles to enjoy his book . . . brilliant . . . hilarious . . . I loved every word of it.’
SUNDAY TIMES
‘A celestial combination of writer and subject . . . One Two Three Four is a critical appreciation, a personal history, a miscellany, a work of scholarship and speculation, and a tribute as passionate and worshipful as any fan letter.’
ESQUIRE
‘The perfect antidote to these times.’
JULIAN BARNES, GUARDIAN
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Perfect for now. It’s ingenious, wholly original (not a given, what with the subject matter), absolutely gripping, funny, sad and moving. A complete treat.’
INDIA KNIGHT
‘A brilliantly executed study of cultural time, social space and the madness of fame . . . by far the best book anyone has written about them and the closest we can get to the truth.’
LITERARY REVIEW
‘We’re taken on a magical mystery tour . . . Brown seems to have invented a wholly new biographical form. In a polychromatic cavalcade of chapters of varying length, the man with kaleidoscope eyes conveys what it was like to live through those extraordinary Beatles years . . . If you want to know what it was like to live those extraordinary Beatles years in real time, read this book.’
ALAN JOHNSON, SPECTATOR