A Mad World, My Masters

There are only a handful of places left on this earth where you can’t buy a McDonald’s hamburger or stay in a Holiday Inn – and John Simpson has been to them all. This hugely successful volume of writing is a celebration of some of the world’s wilder places. His extraordinary experiences include stories about a television camera that killed people, about how Colonel Gadhaffi farted his way through an interview and how he – Simpson – mooned the Queen.