For over twenty years people turned to A A Gill's columns every Sunday
- for his fearlessness his perception & the laughter-&-tear-provoking one-liners
- but mostly because he was the best ' By miles the most brilliant journalist of our age' as Lynn Barber put it This is the definitive collection ofa voice that was silenced too early but that can still make us look at the world in new & surprising ways In the words of Andrew Marr AA Gill was 'a golden writer' There was nothing that he couldn't illuminate with his dazzling prose Wherever he was
- at home or abroad
- he found the human story brought it to vivid life & rendered it with fierce honesty & bracing compassion & he was just as truthful about himself There have been various collections of A A Gill's journalism
- individual compilations of his restaurant & TV criticism of his travel writing & his extraordinary feature articles This book will collect examples of the very best of his work the peerlessly funny criticism the extraordinarily knowledgeable food writing assignments throughout the world & reflections on life love & death Drawn from a range of publications including the Sunday Times Vanity Fair Tatler & Australian Gourmet Traveller The Ivy Cookbook & his books on England & America it will be by turns hilarious uplifting controversial unflinching sad funny & furious