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The cricket fiction of Sassoon and De Sélincourt isn’t in a ‘bucolic dreamworld’

Letter: There are serious political and societal messages to be found in some of the best-known fictional accounts of village cricket, argues Rod Edmond

The Guardian - UK · Aug 10

The Autobiography of a Cad review – a playful mockery of entitlement and greed

A fine, multitasking cast of three deliver laughs aplenty in Ian Hislop and Nick Newman’s adaptation of a 1930s satire, though the cad’s true malice is lacking

The Guardian - UK · Feb 23, 2025

The Autobiography of a Cad review – Ian Hislop and Nick Newman retell a rotter’s political progress

The Private Eye duo adapt AG Macdonell’s satire showing how a privileged chancer in English public life gets away with it

The Guardian - UK · Feb 13, 2025