Do you know someone who is incensed by compulsory tipping? Who is infuriated if kept on hold for more than a minute? Who is positively apoplectic if someone answers their phone during dinner? If so, you've probably encountered the phenomenon of the grumpy old man. Following the television series, thiscompanion tome is packedwith funny and informative chapters such as "Who are we," "What are we grumpy about," and "How can you spot the signs of grumpiness coming on,"leaving even the grumpiest of men with a grin on his face."

To everything there is a season. A time to be born, a time to die, and a time to have a bloody good moan. Following the huge success of "Grumpy Old Men," this workgives us a more in-depth look at what it's really like to be a pissed-off man of a certain age. In painstaking detail, he takes us through a year in the constantly irritated life of a Grumpy Old Man, recounting the manifold vexations and absurdities he has to put up with in the perpetual torment that we call modern living. Drinks parties, holidays, hospital visits, his children's misdemeanours, buying presents for the wife, watching...