101 chance meetings juxtaposing the famous & the infamous the artistic & the philistine the pompous & the comical the snobbish & the vulgar told by Britains funniest writer. Life is made up of humans meeting one another. They speak or dont speak. They get on or fall out. They laugh they cry are excited are indifferent. One on One is a chain of 101 extraordinary but true encounters from Tolstoy rumbling Tchaikovsky in 1876 to George Galloway baiting Michael Barrymore in 2006. The Royal Family giggle at T.S. Eliot Walter Sickert draws the curtains on the carol-singing Edward Heath Youssoupoff assassinates Rasputin Marilyn Monroe commissions Frank Lloyd Wright. Circular in its construction panoramic in its breadth One on One is a book like no other. Browns glorious book is an original & a complete delight Miranda Seymour Sunday Times Books of the Year