Wake Me Up When It's All Over...
Unpublished Letters to The Daily Telegraph
by Kate Moore
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Pub Date Dec 14 2021 | Archive Date Jan 13 2022
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Description
Now in its thirteenth year, this new edition of the best-selling series is a review of the year made up of the wry and astute observations of the unpublished Telegraph letter writers.
Readers of the Telegraph Letters Page will be fondly aware of the eclectic combination of learned wisdom, wistful nostalgia and robust good sense of humour that characterise its correspondence – whether it’s suggesting the sci-fi Vulcan salute as an alternative to the now-discouraged handshake, or a parable of political dysfunction drawn from shopping in Ikea.
From Brexit to Covid, Trump to Biden, lockdown to vaccination, parish council Jackie Weaver to Texas Cat lawyer Rod Ponton, no one escapes their hilariously whimsical and sometimes risqué musings. With an agenda as enticing as ever, the thirteenth book in the bestselling Unpublished Letters series will prove, once again, that the Telegraph’s readers still have a shrewd sense of what really matters.
Available Editions
| EDITION | Other Format |
| ISBN | 9780711268913 |
| PRICE | $15.00 (USD) |
| PAGES | 192 |
Featured Reviews
Reviewer 266180
From the Succinct To The Bizarre…
Another selection of letters to The Daily Telegraph, the thirteenth and covering a review of the year made up of unpublished correspondence. As usual, from the succinct, to the bizarre, to the spot on and to the downright concerning. They’re all here. Also as usual, this makes for a good, entertaining read.
John L, Reviewer
I didn't see the fully locked-down 2020 edition of these wonderful books, but this has more than enough of the 'didn't know whether to laugh or cry' memories of Covid Year 2. Politicians being thick, or shit, or indeed thick as shit, Tony Blair's lockdown mullet, and Mucky Meg"h"an dragging the rugby player's son on to Oprah to attest to a want of privacy ("This is beginning to resemble a rather posh episode of the Jeremy Kyle show" indeed) - all the vomitous, yawn-inducing and/or plain loathsome is here. If you don't know what kind of letters make up these books of submissions to the Telegraph newspapers, you should know they're succinct, routinely witty – and even when they're clearly despatching the best line heard down the pub and prove to be a plain, pure and simple quip, they're well worth the time spent on them. Even the fact this could be expected to be a book of people complaining they can't even go down the bloody pub does not prevent this from being a success. As usual.
Hope S, Reviewer
4 stars
A selection of letters to the editor of the Daily Telegraph in 2021 that didn’t make it into print. Most are puns, witty observations, or funny anecdotes.
[What I liked:]
•This book made me laugh! Pretty much every page had at least one funny quip or story. I particularly enjoyed the letter about using precariously stacked piles of books as a burglar alarm 😂
•Each letter includes the name of the writer, & their town & county of residence. I also enjoyed reading the place names.
•The letters are arranged into chapters by theme, & then under sub-headings by sub-theme, so you can skip around to topics you find interesting.
[What I didn’t like as much:]
•The only downside was that I didn’t get 100% of the political jokes, but that’s my own fault for not following UK politics as closely as I could.
[I received an ARC ebook copy from NetGalley in exchange for my honest review. Thank you for the book!]
Laura D, Reviewer
This was a fun and satirical reflection on the last year through the unpublished letters sent into the Daily Telegraph. There were many times reading this that I audibly laughed at loud at some of the hot takes contained within this volume. I thoroughly enjoyed dipping into this intermittently for a dose of comedy. I already cannot wait for the next volume,
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