A graduate in Modern History and Modern Languages from New College, Oxford, Brandreth has turned his hand to a wide variety of pursuits in a diverse and eventful career in literature, broadcasting and politics – not to mention being a former European Monopoly champion and co-founder of a teddy bear museum.
Brandreth has penned a wide variety of books ranging across both fiction and non-fiction. Many of his works concern language and its usage, such as Have You Eaten Grandma? and Word Play, as well as a pithy history of Britain, a guide to happiness, compendiums of quotations and anecdotes, poetry anthologies for both adults and children and books of riddles and jokes for young readers. He has published two volumes of diaries (Breaking the Code, which chronicled his time at Westminster, and the more general Something Sensational to Read on the Train) and a memoir (Odd Boy Out) as well as biographies of royalty including commemorative volumes on Prince Philip and Elizabeth II. Whilst much of his children’s fiction is now sadly out of print, his series of detective novels featuring Oscar Wilde and Arthur Conan Doyle endures.
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