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'A brilliant writer.' Russell Tovey ‘Thoroughly entertaining.’ OTEGHA UWAGBA ‘Funny and beautifully revealing.’ BELLA MACKIE ‘Wise, sharp and naughty.’ THE OBSERVER ‘Herein lie the men of Raven Smith. Each of them has left a mark, a memory, a stain, whether they meant to or not. Some hit deep, and I caught feels. Some I discarded like a clip-on neck tie’ From the Sunday Times bestselling author of Raven Smith’s Trivial Pursuits, comes a pin sharp, hilarious and incisive exploration of what it means to be a man in the modern day. This book is about men because, in an annoying way, everything is. Funny men, tall men, charming men. Stepdads, actual dads and ripped ‘sports dads’. Raven Smith has been trying to distil what it is about men that has kept him intrigued his whole life. Part memoir, part exploration of the peculiar dynamics and amorphous boundaries of masculinity, Raven looks unflinchingly at his own history, offering a cautious reverence of a life lived in parallel with other men. Blending the personal, the primal and the perennial, these are Raven Smith’s men in all their infuriating, labyrinthine complexity.

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PRAISE FOR TRIVIAL PURSUITS: 'Instagram's answer to David Sedaris.' ST STYLE MAGAZINE The unofficial spokesperson of the modern millennial' SUNDAY TIMES 'STYLE' MAGAZINE 'Funny, interrogating, refreshingly self-aware and irresistibly readable' DOLLY ALDERTON 'Raven Smith's writing is as current as it is biting!' CANDICE CARTY-WILLIAMS 'You'll laugh. You'll cry.' LENA DUNHAM 'Fresh, funny and fabulous!' JONATHAN ROSS 'Raven Smith is rollickingly good fun and Britain's sassiest social commentator. Trivial Pursuits is a linguistic acid trip and a showcase of his ability to shape even the most useless piece of information into something riveting.' PANDORA SYKES 'I'm laughing out loud, wincing in recognition and shaking my head in wonderment' ELIZABETH DAY 'It's hilarious. I feel like he wrote it from inside my brain but only if my brain was cleverer and more articulate.' BELLA MACKIE 'a naughty little firecracker.' DEBORAH FRANCES WHITE

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Raven Smith has been 32 for several years and lives in London with his husband and cat. The current Vogue and former Sunday Times columnist is quoted by many as the funniest person on Instagram, which does nothing to minimise his ego. His first book, Trivial Pursuits, was a Sunday Times best-seller.

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