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The much-loved Guardian columnist asks what it takes to make a husband, and looks to his own married life to provide the answer.* *Anything resembling advice should be taken at readerâ??s own risk.

Written with self-excoriating candour and the driest humour, comes a book about being a dad from one of our best loved journalists.

While this book is indeed titled How to Be a Husband, please do not mistake it for a self-help book. Tim Dowling--columnist for The Guardian, husband, father of three, a person who once got into a shark tank for money--does not purport to have any pearls of wisdom about wedded life. What he does have is more than twenty years of marriage experience, and plenty of hilarious advice for what not to do in almost every conjugal situation. With the sharp wit that has made his Guardian columns a weekly must-read, Dowling explores what it means to be a good husband in the twenty-first century. The bar has been raised dramatically in the last hundred years: back in the day, every time you went out for cigarettes, it was simply expected that you came back. Now, every time you're sent out for espresso pods and tampons, it is expected that you come back with the right sort. And being a father doesn't seem to command much innate respect these days, either. When his first child was born, Dowling imagined himself eliciting a natural awe as the distant, authoritative figurehead; he did not anticipate his children hijacking his Twitter account to post heartfelt admissions of loserdom like, "Hi, I suck at everything I try in life." Still, two decades of wedded bliss is nothing to sneeze at, particularly from a couple who agreed to get married with the resigned determination of two people plotting to bury a body in the woods. How to Be a Husband is a wickedly funny guide to surviving the era of "The End of Men" (hint: it involves DIY), and an unexpectedly poignant memoir about love, marriage, and staying together until death doth you part.

The author follows three main characters from high school onward as they each embark on successful yet very different paths. Refusing to drift apart, the lifelong friends soon find they are more connected than they ever imagined as science, politics, and religion all come to a head with the discovery of new technologies.The President of the United States worked as a research scientist before being elected. He experienced firsthand the role creative technology can play in problem solving. Following his election, without delay the President secretly engaged his best friend's company to search for technological solutions to put an end to some of the nation's unrelenting problems. Within months of the President's request, Solutions, LLC attained his directive by discovering an answer to a problem which not only beleaguered the President's four predecessors, but deeply divided the nation. The President's initiative created unintended consequences. A staunch ally surreptitiously obtains the new technology and Solutions, LLC's team made an accidental finding which can potentially abolish the nation's worst problem. The story will not only keep you guessing, but will capture your imagination and then will refuse to let it go. Is this technology possible? You decide.

Giles Wareing has started telling people he’s forty, even though he’s actually thirty-nine years and eleven months. It’s supposed to help him conquer the fear, but in fact he has only given the fear a four-week head start. Giles is a freelance writer of amusing articles for a national newspaper. One day, feeling particularly fortyish, he happens to type ‘Giles Wareing+unfunny’ into a search engine. And that’s when he discovers the thread. The thread is called ‘The Giles Wareing Haters’ Club’, and is entirely devoted to holding everything he has ever written up to excoriating criticism and ridicule. As Giles becomes obsessed with the thread, with tracking down its participants, his angst begins to focus on one particularly scornful contributor, and it soon becomes clear that things are going really quite badly wrong . . . A tragedy, a farce and a detective story, The Giles Wareing Haters’ Club is an absorbing, hilarious and razor-sharp look at the modern male in all his dysfunctional glory. ‘Entertaining and unexpectedly poignant’ Times Literary Supplement ‘Very funny . . .Cringe comedy at its best’ GQ ‘An acerbically dry and hilarious tale’ InStyle