Adam Macqueen has at various points in his career cleaned toilets, packed mail-order baldness cures, led canoeing holidays for teenage drug addicts, toured Europe in the worst production of Richard II in history and been one of those people answering the phones in the background during Watchdog, before settling on journalism as a profession. He has written for a number of newspapers and magazines, edited the Big Issue, and currently works for Private Eye.He is currently working as a freelance feature writer and appears regularly on Sky television.

"Written with wit and verve, managing to be both inspirational and a cautionary tale" The Times "Macqueen stuffs the book with amusing detail, humorously told" The Telegraph "Well-researched biography ... the course of his narrative is lucid and precise" The Spectator "Wonderfully entertaining, constantly reanimating the period and the places with wit and cunning. No other biography in recent years has left me so wanting to meet its subject" Mail on Sunday "A thoroughly entertaining rummage through the life and times of one of Britain's most eccentric businessmen, it will leave you smiling, sweet-smelling, and ready to storm the history round of your local pub quiz" Sandi Toksvig

Adam Macqueen has at various points in his career cleaned toilets, packed mail-order baldness cures, led canoeing holidays for teenage drug addicts, toured Europe in the worst production of Richard II in history and been one of those people answering the phones in the background during Watchdog, before settling on journalism as a profession. He has written for a number of newspapers and magazines, edited the Big Issue, and currently works for Private Eye.He is currently working as a freelance feature writer and appears regularly on Sky television.

"Written with wit and verve, managing to be both inspirational and a cautionary tale" The Times "Macqueen stuffs the book with amusing detail, humorously told" The Telegraph "Well-researched biography ... the course of his narrative is lucid and precise" The Spectator "Wonderfully entertaining, constantly reanimating the period and the places with wit and cunning. No other biography in recent years has left me so wanting to meet its subject" Mail on Sunday "A thoroughly entertaining rummage through the life and times of one of Britain's most eccentric businessmen, it will leave you smiling, sweet-smelling, and ready to storm the history round of your local pub quiz" Sandi Toksvig