A Mad World, My Masters

'Highly entertaining' - The Times The second volume of autobiography from legendary foreign correspondent, John Simpson. There are only a handful of places left on this earth where you can't buy a McDonald's hamburger or stay in a Holiday Inn - and John Simpson has been to them all. Honest, entertaining, and at times hilarious, A Mad World, My Masters is a celebration of some of the world's wilder places. Packed full of extraordinary experiences, it includes stories about a television camera that killed people, about how Colonel Gaddafi farted his way through an interview and how he - Simpson - mooned the Queen. This vivid memoir will transport you around the world and take you behind the scenes of life as a journalist on the frontlines. 'What amazing tales he has to tell, and with what enthralling vividness . . . Riveting' - Daily Mail 'The range of his travels is staggering . . . Never less than entertaining, sometimes moving and often funny' - The Sunday Telegraph The fascinating stories continue in John Simpson's third volume of autobiography, News from No Man's Land.

John Simpson is the BBC's World Affairs Editor. He has twice been the Royal Television Society's Journalist of the Year and won countless other major television awards. He has written several books, including four volumes of autobiography, Strange Places, Questionable People, A Mad World, My Masters, News from No Man's Land and Not Quite World's End and a childhood memoir, Days from a Different World. He is also the author of The Wars Against Saddam, Twenty Tales from the War Zone and Unreliable Sources, as well as several novels. He lives in London with his South African wife, Dee, and their son, Rafe.