Paperback edition of Brown's original and intriguing book which looks at 101 chance meetings. They juxtapose the famous and the infamous, the artistic and the philistine, the pompous and the comical, the snobbish and the vulgar. Includes Gladstone terrifying the teenage Bertrand Russell, and George Galloway meeting Michael Barrymore on "Celebrity Big Brother". 'Marvellously inventive and witty...' "Mail On Sunday"

Craig Brown has been writing the parodic celebrity diary for Private Eye since 1989. He has written for a widevariety of publications, including the Daily Mail, the Guardian, the New Statesman and the Spectator. His books include One Two Three Four: The Beatles in Time, which won the Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction, and Ma'am Darling, which won the James Tait Black award.