HardCover Pub Date: 2011 09 Pages: 336 Publisher: Random House Over the course of the last ten years. Frank Skinner has toured sell-out stand-up shows. Hosted countless TV shows and an award-winning radio programme. Written two well-received volumes of memoir. as well as recording a couple of pop songs and learning to play the ukulele. He has been a busy man. Yet. for the last two years. he has also managed to squeeze in a weekly column for The Times. Without fail. he sat down every week and wracked his ain to think of something to write 900 words about. Dispatches From the Sofa is the illiant result. Alighting on such random topics as the potential demise of Margaret Thatcher. the love- hate relationship with your football club. Mike Read's musical of Oscar Wilde. fat pop stars. Serbian eakfast banter. the pleasures of air-guitar. the banking crisis and the evil phenomenon ...