funny and gentle deep dive into the most unbearably reasonable men in the UK – your perfect Christmas present for any dad, husband, brother or uncle who owns more gilets than shoes, buys vinyl (but doesn’t always remove the cellophane), puffs on a CBD vape, and claims he has a brick from the Haçienda in his outdoor barbecue (yeah, right).
Packed full of quizzes, lifehacks and top 10 lists, The Centrist Dad Handbook will answer questions like:
- Why exactly is the Centrist Dad’s taste in music stuck in the Blair era?
- Why does he carry a folded bicycle wherever he goes?
- Why does he call it his ‘office’ when it’s clearly a shepherd’s hut?
- Would he consider bringing back hanging if the rope was made of sustainably-sourced hemp?
The guide will also examine gnarlier issues like music festivals, e-scooters and whether it is OK to still listen to The Smiths if you do so whilst wearing noise-cancelling headphones and sorting the recycling. Plus food and drink ideas (the most centrist food is, obviously, half-and-half sweet-and-salty popcorn) and the thing no guide to Centrist Dads would be complete without: Adrian Chiles.
Written by Jason Hazeley (who co-authored the bestselling phenomenon The Ladybird Books for Grown-Ups series and anything with the word Cunk in the title) and Nico Tatarowicz (The Armstrong & Miller Show, Murder In Successville, Spitting Image), this is The Official Sloane Ranger Handbook for the 21st century. A humour book must for that breed of men who miss Top Gear even though they identify as cyclists.
Jason Hazeley is a BAFTA, Broadcast and Bookseller award winning writer. He is the co-creator of the Ladybird Books For Grown-Ups series, which have sold 7.2m copies to date, and spoof local newspaper The Framley Examiner, which has not sold 7.2m copies to date. For the screen, he has written for living legends Philomena Cunk and Paddington Bear, along with well-known fictional characters like Miranda Hart and Charlie Brooker. His words have also filled valuable unclaimed advertising space in The Times, The Guardian, The Daily Telegraph, The Independent, The Observer, Mojo, Esquire, Jack, The Idler and potty-mouthed national treasure Viz.
Nico Tatarowicz is an award-winning writer, podcaster and musician. He broke into TV in the mid 2000’s going on to write on all three BBC1 series of The Armstrong and Miller Show, Channel 4’s Very Important People and Spitting Image. He contributed several short stories across four series of the award-winning Crackanory, seeing his words brought to life by Paul Whitehouse, Harry Enfield, Vic Reeves, Sheridan Smith and Carrie Fisher, and was a key part of the writing team for three series of the BAFTA winning Murder In Successville.
Published on October 24 - pre-order here.
