Craig Brown: A Voyage Around the Queen

03/06/2025
58 min
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Anne Frank kept her picture on the wall of her annex; Virginia Woolf compared her to a caterpillar; Haile Selassie gave her a gold tiara. Queen Elizabeth II was famous for longer than anyone who has ever lived. Now the One Two Three Four author and Private Eye diarist Craig Brown makes his Jewish Book Week debut with the Sunday Times bestseller, called by the Sunday Telegraph “a very unusual masterpiece”. An unmissable hour with one of the funniest writers of our times, winner of the South Bank Show Sky Arts Award, the Baillie Gifford Prize and the James Tait Black Award.

An event from Jewish Book Week 2025.

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Sam Leith

Sam Leith is Literary Editor of the Spectator. He has written extensively for the Guardian, TLS, Financial Times, Telegraph and Daily Mail, and was a judge for the 2015 Man Booker Prize. Image © Mark Rusher

Craig Brown

Craig Brown has been writing the parodic celebrity diary for Private Eye since 1989. He has written for a rich variety of publications, including the Daily Mail, the New York Review of Books, the New Statesman, The Guardian and the Spectator. Image © Nick Ilot

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Craig Brown: A Voyage Around the Queen

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Sam Leith

Sam Leith is Literary Editor of the Spectator. He has written extensively for the Guardian, TLS, Financial Times, Telegraph and Daily Mail, and was...

Craig Brown

Craig Brown has been writing the parodic celebrity diary for Private Eye since 1989. He has written for a rich variety of publications, including...