John O'Farrell has been a writer for the satirical television show "Spitting Image "and on the film "Chicken Run" and is a regular columnist for "The Independent "(London). His nonfiction book on the futility of being a Labour Party supporter, Things Can Only Get Better," "was a #1 "Sunday Times "bestseller in Great Britain. He lives in Clapham, England, with his wife and two children-when he isn't "working."