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Throughout 2017, John Crace, The Guardian's parliamentary sketch writer, watched Prime Minister Theresa May's efforts to remain strong and stable - and, indeed, Prime Minister. He coined the term Maybot for her malfunctioning public appearances. And now, in this edited collection of his unremittingly witty sketches, he tells the full story of Theresa May's turbulent first year in Westminster.

Kate Douglas Wiggin was an American educator and author of children's stories, including the classic children's novel Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm. The Birds' Christmas Carol, published in 1888, is a novel about Carol Bird, a Christmas baby who turns into an exceptionally kind and generous young girl who has a positive effect on everyone with whom she comes into contact. The story was adapted as the silent movie A Bit o' Heaven in 1917.

Sir Charles Huxley, a former government minister, kept a dark secret - a secret he should have taken to the grave when he died in 1999. His son, William, now lives an uneventful life in his father’s shadow. One evening, William has an encounter which sets off an escalating series of sinister events, culminating in a damning revelation about his father’s past. That revelation drags William into the darkest of blackmail plots. That is until a man working at his local bar steps forward and offers help.

A man at odds with the universe, Anthony McGowan stumbles from one improbable fiasco to the next. On the mean streets of West Hampstead he reflects upon all that is at the heart of life itself - socks with holes, underwhelming packed lunches, broken washing machines, Kierkegaard, liver salts, British Library eccentricities, and disapproving ladies on trains. In this chronicle of one man’s daily failures and disappointments, McGowan can’t help but speak his mind - with cringe-worthy and hilarious results.

There is now only one certainty in life. When things can't possibly get any worse, they absolutely will. And so, after three years of Maybot malfunctioning and Brexit bungling, welcome to BoJo the clown's national circus - where fun for literally none of the family is guaranteed. Fear not, however: Decline and Fail is your personal survival guide to the ongoing political apocalypse.