‘Ma’am Darling is fascinating. Brown has done something amazing with Ma’am Darling: in my wilder moments, I wonder if he hasn’t reinvented the biographical form’ Observer ‘A biography teeming with the joyous, the ghastly and the clinically fascinating’ Hannah Bett, The Times ‘Consistently hilarious and eye-opening’ Tim Adams, Observer ‘Heaven’ India Knight, Sunday Times ‘The only royal biography of the year worth handing the Queen’s head over for, Ma’am Darling is a modern and unconventional portrait of an old-fashioned princess as distilled and pickled through the genius of Craig Brown’ Helen Davies, Sunday Times ‘Craig Brown has brilliantly drawn together the component parts of a complex woman’ The Oldie ‘A playful, impish approach…Brown gives us lots of wonderful incidental detail…The deftly amused writing constantly tugs the corners of your mouth upwards’ Evening Standard ‘A cross between biography and satire that perfectly displays Brown’s rare skills as journalist and parodist’, Mark Lawson, Guardian, Books of the Year ‘Hugely entertaining … brilliantly written, with a wonderful sardonic edge but also a thoughtful, at times even moving tone’ Spectator ‘If you want a book that will have you punching your pillow in helpless laughter, this is it. Moreover, he has invented an entirely new genre, of which it is a masterpiece … The list of the Princess's 'rumoured' lovers – up to and wickedly including Dusty Springfield – sparked my decision to buy this book as a Christmas present for everybody I know, and for those I don't.’ Country Life ‘Hilarious’ Sunday Telegraph ‘Brilliant’ Evening Standard ‘Craig Brown achieves the impossible by finding a tone in which to write about monarchy. Not bitchy, not snide, not angry, but not fawning nor deferential either. Just funny.’ David Hare, Guardian

: The hilarious, bestselling royal biography, perfect for fans of The Crown • Craig Brown is widely acknowledged as Britain’s funniest writer. • ‘One on One’ (33,000 TCM) was picked as a 2011 Book of the Year on no less than ten occasions . • ‘The Lost Diaries’ (11,000 TCM), was the Sunday Times’ Humour Book of 2010. • Craig’s previous books have sold phenomenally well – including THE LITTLE BOOK OF CHAOS (95,000 TCM) and 1966 AND ALL THAT (30,500 TCM). Competition: This is Going to Hurt;Mitford murders;wit and wisdom of downton abbey;Charles victim or villain; my husband and i; wallis in love;the duchess; the girl on the dancing horse; One Two Three Four;The Beatles in Time;1234. By:Adam kay;grace dent;adam buxton;billy connolly;mark manson