Client details
Francis Wheen
Author-Broadcaster-Journalist
Agent
| Carol MacArthur | +44 (0) 20 3214 0880 |
About
Francis Wheen was born on the 22nd January 1957 into an army family. He was educated at Copthorne Prep School and Harrow School. Running away from Harrow at 16 "to join the alternative society" he had early periods as a "dogsbody" at The Guardian and the New Statesman and attended the Royal Holloway College, University of London after a period of crammer. At Harrow he was a contemporary of Mark Thatcher who has been a recurring subject of his journalism. He lives with Julia Jones and the couple of have two sons. He broadcasts regularly, mainly on BBC Radio 4 and is a regular panellist on The News Quiz. He is the Deputy Editor of Private Eye. |
Fiction
| Publication Details | Notes |
|---|---|
| UNTITLED NOVEL ON KARL MARX Fourth Estate |
Non-Fiction
| Publication Details | Notes |
|---|---|
| BIOGRAPHY OF KARL MARX 1999 Fourth Estate | Won the Isaac Deutscher Prize. |
| HOW MUMBO-JUMBO CONQUERED THE WORLD 2004 Fourth Estate | Francis Wheen evokes the key personalities of the post-political era - including Princess Diana and Deepak Chopra, Osama Bin Laden and Nancy Reagan`s astrologer - while charting the extraordinary rise in superstition, relativism and emotional hysteria over the past quarter of a century. From UFO scares to dotcom mania, his hilarious and gloriously impassioned polemic describes a period in the world`s history when everything began to stop making sense. |
| KARL MARX 1999 Fourth Estate | A dazzling biography of a life rich in comedy and Victorian melodrama, in grant plots and dire straits: Karl Marx proves to be wholly a man of our times. |
| DAS KAPITAL 2006 Atlantic | The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways; the point is to change it, wrote Karl Marx in 1845. This is the essence of Das Kapital, a blazing expose of new capitalist world of the Victorian era, whose ideas would affect the lives of millions and alter the course of world history. |
| STRANGE DAYS INDEED 2009 4th Estate | The nostalgic whiff of the Seventies evokes memories of loons and disco, Abba and Fawlty Towers. However, beneath the long hair, it was really a theme park of mass paranoia. |
| THE CHATTO BOOK OF CATS 1993 Chatto & Windus | |
| THE SIXTIES 1982 Ebury | |
| TELEVISION: A HISTORY 1984 Grove Press | |
| LORD GNOME'S LITERARY COMPANION 1994 Verso Books | |
| WHO WAS DR. CHARLOTTE BACH? 2002 Short Books | |
| HOO-HAHS AND PASSING FRENZIES: COLLECTED JOURNALISM 2002 Atlantic Books | Mainly consisting of columns written for The Guardian. Won the George Orwell Prize in 2003. |
| THE IRRESISTIBLE CON: THE BIZARRE LIFE OF A FRAUDULENT GENIUS 2004 Short Books | |
| SHOOTING OUT THE LIGHTS 2004 Fourth Estate | |
| TITLE: TOM DRIBERG: THE SOUL OF DISCRETION 2001 Fourth Estate |
Agent
| Natasha Galloway |
