A.A. Gill's Books
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To America with LoveA celebrated British provocateur and Vanity Fair columnist serves up a funny, erudite, and surprisingly warm-hearted ode to America.Read More -
The Angry IslandThink of England, and anger hardly springs to mind as its primary national characteristic. Yet in The Angry Island, A. A. Gill argues that, in fact,...Read More
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Previous ConvictionsCritic, essayist and cultural savant A.A. Gill is probably the most widely read columnist in Britain. His books The Angry Island and A.A. Gill is away...Read More
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AA Gill is AwayA. A. Gill is one of the most feared writers in London, noted--according to the New York Times--for his "rapier wit." Some even consider the mere...Read More
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Telegraph, April 5, 2013
...Roger Eberts death is a reminder that writing, not opinion, is at the heart of a great review Pearl Harbor, wrote the late Roger Ebert, is a two-hour movie squeezed into three hours, about how, on December 7, 1941, the Japanese staged a surprise attack...
London Evening Standard, March 6, 2013
...Guests including Times Literary Supplement editor Sir Peter Stothard waited to see whether Gill, who had slated Beard as presenter of the BBC’s Meet the Romans, would attend. “I did invite him but he didn’t reply,” said Beard. Also at the party...
Lonely Planet, January 11, 2013
...Throughout 2012 Lonely Planet staff rated and reviewed the travel literature titles they had read. If you’re in search of some inspiration – or just some plane reading – here are the top-rated books of the past year. The Man Within My Head by...
GQ Magazine UK, January 10, 2013
...Socially inept? Lonely? Allow me to introduce How To Influence People While Partying by Javier Topaz. You may suspect that Sr Topaz isn't really Latino at all, but a man called Gareth from Spalding. Wrong. "This book is not an ordinary book," Javier...
Oxford Times, January 3, 2013
...have expected better of their restaurant writer. Over at the Sunday Times this week Coren’s fellow abstainer A.A. Gill was supplying an illustration of another failing of some national newspaper restaurant writing — its metrocentricity. Surveying...
Gourmet Traveller, December 29, 2012
...As part of our first-ever summer reading special, AA Gill writes about the pleasures of reading on holiday. What do you pack? Everything, just in case? Virtually nothing, because you don’t want to hump a case? There is something you will take,...
Sydney Morning Herald, December 14, 2012
...awarded the Bad Sex in Fiction Award since 1993. Winners include, yes, Guterson, as well as Sebastian Faulks, A.A. Gill, Melvyn Bragg and Bridget Jones author Helen Fielding, who was sufficiently embarrassed to swear off writing about sex entirely. This...
Daily Caller, January 18, 2013
...ruminate[d] merrily” about things he imagined doing to his professional enemies, including Top Gear host Jeremy Clarkson, writer A.A. Gill and editor Ian Hislop. “So the real question is, if I had a gun with just two bullets, who would I shoot?”...
London Evening Standard, January 16, 2013
...The series, starring Jeremy Piven as Harry Gordon Selfridge, is based on the book Shopping, Seduction and Mr Selfridge by Lindy Woodhead, and uses real and fictitious characters. It has been called “Downton with tills” and most reviews have been...
Lonely Planet, January 11, 2013
...Throughout 2012 Lonely Planet staff rated and reviewed the travel literature titles they had read. If you’re in search of some inspiration – or just some plane reading – here are the top-rated books of the past year. The Man Within My Head by...
LondonlovesBusiness.com, January 11, 2013
...Japanese food so good, it’s bad-habit-forming� How do you eat your crab spider roll? Personally, I like to pick mine up, put a dab of wasabi on it, then dip it into my pot of soy sauce before administering it neatly into my mouth. Rarely does the...
GQ Magazine UK, January 10, 2013
...Socially inept? Lonely? Allow me to introduce How To Influence People While Partying by Javier Topaz. You may suspect that Sr Topaz isn't really Latino at all, but a man called Gareth from Spalding. Wrong. "This book is not an ordinary book," Javier...
Telegraph, January 8, 2013
...Alice Arnold, former newsreader and partner of Clare Balding, has criticised the BBC's Today programme for having too few female presenters, as she claims women of a certain age and appearance are not seen on television. Women of a "certain age and...
Telegraph, January 8, 2013
...Alice Arnold, former newsreader and partner of Clare Balding, has criticised the BBC's Today programme for having too few female presenters, as she claims women of a certain age and appearance are not seen on television. Women of a "certain age and...
