Books by Kate Greathead
“This is almost like The Diary of a Nobody: George is a sort of everyman, a hapless figure who is drifting through his life, getting into scrapes almost by default because he doesn’t have the sense of agency to get out of them. He misses his dad’s death because he has gone on a road trip by mistake with his friends. He’s in a relationship that he’s not very interested in because he can’t get the motivation to leave it. He’s a figure who is detached from his own life. It’s very American, but in a way that is recognisable, I think, to everybody. He’s an everyman for the 2020s, I guess.” Read more...
Stephanie Merritt, Journalist
Interviews where books by Kate Greathead were recommended
The Funniest Books of 2025, recommended by Stephanie Merritt
Every year, the judges of the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for Comic Fiction draw up a shortlist of books that made them laugh out loud. We asked the novelist Stephanie Merritt, one of the 2025 judges, to talk us through the eight books in the running for the title of the funniest book of the year.
