Pure Drivel

‘A mix of urbane wit and surreal extrapolations – Douglas Adams meets Flann O’Brien’ IndependentWho else but Steve Martin could combine irrefutable evidence that Mars is populated by kittens with a treatise on sledgehammers In this brilliantly witty collection of pieces Steve Martin takes a subversive glimpse at the world and a sideways swipe at the conventional. From memory tips for the over-fifties to his insightful exposition of ‘Wittgenstein’s Banana’, never has ‘pure drivel’ been so entertaining.