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John Prescott’s adventures at Royal Ascot and Karl Lagerfeld’s search for a springtime umbrella are among the diary entries in a new book by Private Eye satirist Craig Brown.
Nicholas Pearson, publishing director at Fourth Estate, bought British Commonwealth rights, excluding Canada, to two books at auction from Caroline Dawnay at United Agents for an undisclosed sum. The first, a collection of diary entries, will be published next autumn. Pearson described it as "a wide-ranging anthology of the world’s greatest diarists, all of them channelled through the considerable psychic force that is Craig Brown".
The second, due out autumn 2011, satirises 100 real-life meetings, stretching from the 19th century to the 21st, connecting the people through the chain of meetings. "How do you get from Gladstone to Terence Stamp in three moves? This book will tell you," said Pearson.