A collection of the very best parliamentary sketches from the "Guardian" journalist, over the last 20 years. This book will have the reader laughing, chuckling, snickering and sometimes despairing. 'Very, very funny. Politics needs Simon Hoggart' John Humphrys

Tells how John Major learned English language from his time in Nigeria. There is Tony Blair, with his verb-free sentences which imply everything and promise nothing. Gordon Brown, grumpiest prime minister of recent years, both Stalin and Mr Bean. This book offers a collection of the author's sketches written since he took up the poisoned quill.

Simon Hoggart is widely regarded as the sharpest, wisest and wittiest of all parliamentary sketchwriters - and certainly the longest serving.

House of Fun is a bumper collection of his finest and funniest sketches written since he took up the poisoned quill twenty years ago. It is instant history with added jokes.

Read about how John Major learned the English language from his time in Nigeria. There is Tony Blair, with his verb-free sentences which imply everything and promise nothing. Gordon Brown, the grumpiest prime minister of recent years, both Stalin and Mr Bean. And now David Cameron - who really, really hates being drawn with a condom on his head.

Let's not forget John Prescott, who can wrestle the English language to the mat and win by two falls to a submission, Michael Fabricant with his hairpiece stolen from the tail of a My Little Pony, Sir Peter Tapsell, a grandee so grand that when he rises to speak, Hansard writers are replaced by a crack team of monks to write up his words in illuminated lettering. Nick Clegg, with his default expression of a man whose children's puppy is still missing. And of course, the famous 2010 press conference in the garden of Downing Street, a love-in that would have been illegal in 44 American states.

This book will have you laughing, chuckling, roaring, sniggering, and sometimes despairing.

"Simon Hoggart is the P.G. Wodehouse of Westminster" - P.J. O'Rourke
"We need him" - John Humphrys