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Brian Viner

Brian Viner
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Brian Viner

Brian Viner was born in 1961 and grew up in Southport, Lancashire. He was the Mail on Sunday's award-winning television critic between 1995 and 1999, since when he has been a columnist on the Independent. He lives with his family in Herefordshire.

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The Good, The Dad and the Ugly will be released on May 23, 2013 in Mass Market Paperback, eBook Reflowable, eBook
May 23, 2013
The Good, The Dad and the Ugly is now available in Mass Market Paperback, eBook Reflowable, eBook
May 23, 2013
The Good, The Dad and the Ugly will be released on May 23, 2013 in Mass Market Paperback
May 23, 2013
The Good, The Dad and the Ugly is now available in Mass Market Paperback
May 23, 2013
Cream Teas, Traffic Jams and Sunburn will be released on May 24, 2012 in Trade Paperback, Mass Market Paperback
May 24, 2012
Cream Teas, Traffic Jams and Sunburn is now available in Trade Paperback, Mass Market Paperback
May 24, 2012
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Dec 17, 2011
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Chapter 1 from Ali, Pelé, Lillee and Me
Dec 17, 2011
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Ali, Pelé, Lillee and Me will be released on June 02, 2010 in
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Nice to See It, To See It, Nice will be released on February 04, 2010 in
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Mirror.co.uk, June 13, 2013
...TV and barely have the energy to whinge about it. Writing in the Mirror yesterday, author and dad-of-three Brian Viner pointed out TV dads are generally oafish, thick, feckless skivers. Brian sounds like a devoted dad who is trying his best and is...
Sunday People, June 12, 2013
...them, or would, if they weren’t on the Xbox all the time. But that’s another story... Brian Viner’s new book on the trials and ­tribulations of ­fatherhood, The Good, The Dad and The Ugly, is out now, published by Simon & Schuster...
Burnley Express, May 29, 2013
...raw deal? After all they have to play their part too in bringing children up. Southport born journalist Brian Viner decided the time was right to spills his outlook on fatherhood as his three fled the nest. The result is a hilarious insight and one...
Irish Independent, September 17, 2012
...Downe House in Berkshire, as Kate Middleton would later attend. Not surprisingly, Balding was head girl. She is, Brian Viner once surmised "one of nature's head girls". She was an enthusiastic rider in her teens -- she learnt to ride before she could...
Huddersfield Daily Examiner, September 8, 2012
...her children, Eleanor, now 19, Joseph, 17, and Jacob, 14. Now living in rural Herefordshire with journalist husband Brian Viner, she is a full-time writer. ?I always enjoyed writing but considered sitting down and writing a novel an indulgence,? she said...
Huddersfield Daily Examiner, September 8, 2012
...her children, Eleanor, now 19, Joseph, 17, and Jacob, 14. Now living in rural Herefordshire with journalist husband Brian Viner, she is a full-time writer. ?I always enjoyed writing but considered sitting down and writing a novel an indulgence,? she said...
Financial Times, July 20, 2012
Clitheroe Advertiser & Times, May 29, 2013
...Mums get all the attention when a baby comes into the world. So do dads get a raw deal?...
Pendle Today, May 29, 2013
...raw deal? After all they have to play their part too in bringing children up. Southport born journalist Brian Viner decided the time was right to spills his outlook on fatherhood as his three fled the nest. The result is a hilarious insight and one...
Burnley Express, May 29, 2013
...raw deal? After all they have to play their part too in bringing children up. Southport born journalist Brian Viner decided the time was right to spills his outlook on fatherhood as his three fled the nest. The result is a hilarious insight and one...
This is Money, May 23, 2013
...married for 20 years but, until this week, I had never sent my wife a love letter, writes BRIAN VINER. Nor had she ever sent one to me. To be honest, they always seemed a bit, well, un-British. And unbefitting to a couple in their early 50s, with three...
Mail Online UK, May 23, 2013
...Jane Viner had never written one to each otherWe got them to try - with magical results By Brian Viner and Jane Viner We may have been married for 20 years but, until this week, I had never sent my wife a love letter, writes BRIAN VINER. Nor had...
Mail Online UK, May 22, 2013
...Jane Viner had never written one to each otherWe got them to try - with magical results By Brian Viner and Jane Viner We may have been married for 20 years but, until this week, I had never sent my wife a love letter, writes BRIAN VINER. Nor had...
Mail Online UK, May 21, 2013
...From lager lout to the voice of Middle England: Has the inscrutable Chris Evans finally grown up? By Brian Viner Last September, singer Robbie Williams said on Chris Evans' Radio 2 Breakfast Show that if his heavily pregnant wife went into labour on the...