Cautionary Tales

These are dark days. The world is seething with imbeciles and poltroons. Everywhere the careless and thoughtless are charging about the place in hulking 4x4s, or inviting Channel 4 to come around rather than clean their own homes.

So comedian, Chris Addison has written "Cautionary Tales For Grown-Ups" - poems in the style of Hilaire Belloc or Struwelpeter, to illustrate the dangers of modern behaviour.

The tales include: the Gloucestershire Horse Club, who posed Naked for a Charity Calendar; Phillip, who talked only in Management Speak; Myfanwy, who answered an Email from a Nigerian Bank Manager; and Fiona and Dave, who had a Wacky Wedding.

Sparklingly wicked and cunningly illustrated, this is a hilarious Struwelpeter for the twenty-first century.