Not to be Rude

Not to be Rude is a painfully assembled collection of writing by Sarina Rowell from cult humour websites The Scrivener’s Fancy and Imagined Slights. Here, all in one place, for the first and last time, she goes into bat for the unfairly maligned – thirtysomething, Nicole Kidman, fashion models and being ‘childless by choice’; and goes into bat against the unfairly non-maligned – tapas restaurants, second-hand booksellers, live performances and Audrey Hepburn. If you loved the BBC production of Pride and Prejudice with Colin Firth, you won’t love Not to be Rude, and will, furthermore, be demonstrating your own terrible taste.

‘Pretty damned funny.’
–TONY MARTIN (the comedian, not the cyclist)