From the Emmy Award-Winning Writer of Succession

Love, Sex and Other Foreign Policy Goals

A group of well-intentioned students head into a war zone, armed only with 'the power of theatre' - the first novel from the BAFTA Award-winning writer of Peep Show and The Thick of It.

Within the first few sentences, Love, Sex &amp; Other Foreign Policy Goals had me hooked...combines the best of sitcom-style drama with just the right amount of gravity... Armstrong’s debut manages to be clever and fun while also retaining grittiness. I hope this is the first of many.

Armstrong at his comic best ... Armstrong’s hilarious portrayal of flawed humanity wins it for me.

Original, unabashed and irresistibly funny.

Armstrong has written a very funny novel about a very nasty war without being disrespectful or patronising – a remarkable achievement

Armstrong has dry, awkward British humour down to perfection.

A refreshing, entertaining, funny and relatable read.

This is a novel that takes comedy out of its comfort zone… And the good news is that the more serious Armstrong gets, the funnier and filthier the jokes become.

If you have ever laughed at Peep Show,…The Thick of It…or Four Lions, among others, then you can’t afford to miss this clever, cynical and roaringly funny debut from their co-writer Jesse Armstrong.

One of our most accomplished TV writers has announced himself as a novelist to watch with the best Waugh-like war story debut novel sine William Boyd’s A Good Man in Africa almost 35 years ago.

It’s very funny and very dry – a debut novel that will clearly be the first of many.

A “serious” novel that is genuinely and frequently funny.

This debut novel from Jesse Armstrong…is every bit as funny and cringe-inducing as the sitcoms he made his name writing.

brilliantly funny… the dialogue and the characters are fantastic.

Jesse Armstrong is the co-creator and writer of the BAFTA Award-winning Peep Show, as well as Fresh Meat, Bad Sugar, Babylon and, with Chris Morris, Four Lions. He was also co-writer of The Thick of It and the Oscar-nominated In the Loop, and wrote the Entire History of You for Charlie Brooker’s Black Mirror. 
 
Love, Sex and Other Foreign Policy Goals is his first novel.

A group of students head into a war zone, armed only with 'the power of theatre' in the first novel from the Emmy award-winning creator of Succession and Peep Show. 
 
 It's 1994 and a gang of good-hearted young people set off in a Ford Transit van armed with several sacks of rice and a half-written play. Their aim is to light a beacon of peace across the Balkans and, very probably, stop the war. 
 
 Andrew would love to stop the war. But what he'd also love to do - perhaps even more than stop the war - is sleep with Penny. Does Penny like him though? Or does she love Simon, Andrew's rival, an irritatingly authentic Geordie poet? Or Shannon, the fierce, inspiring American leader of the troupe? And how will this all play out in a war-zone where all the rules have been abandoned? 
 
 'Original, unabashed and irresistibly funny' Guardian

Jesse Armstrong

Sam Bain

A worthy successor to The Inbetweeners ... the best programme about students since The Young Ones

I never thought I'd enjoy reliving the abject horror of my student days quite as much as I have

***** Brilliantly observed . . . An excellent cast

A first-class opening episode ... Fresh Meat's characters may be a year older, but thankfully, JP, Kingsley et al are showing no signs of evolution ... a witty, sordid delight

Fresh Meat is back and celebrated its return with a magnificent running joke about old meat. Howard started working at the local abattoir and is jubilant at the main perk of the job: "It's spare meat.. from the loose meat bin... It's all right. It's from animals." ... I'm so looking forward to the new term

***** The first successful comedy about students for almost 30 years, and judging by the second series opener, it could easily be sustained for a long time yet ... If Jack Whitehall shone during the first series, he positively dazzles here; the boy is clearly destined for Hollywood, or rehab, or both. But his is not the only strong performance; each and every member of the cast is so wondrous that watching Fresh Meat feels like being privy to something special ... Fresh Meat is for anyone who has ever gone to university, and not just for people who happen to be there now. It's also well-crafted, poignant and very, very amusing - let's hope we don't have to wait another 30 years for something just as good

A comedy that's actually funny. It could catch on

This book's main purpose is to encourage having a laugh, but, like the best laughs, it is based on facts that ring true

The Essential Guide for New Undergraduates/the Future Unemployed

What's the secret to JP's sexual prowess? How does Howard beat the buffet every time? What does Vod really think about drink, drugs and Salman Rushdie? And will Kingsley's diary spill his true feelings for Josie? (hopefully not as stomach-churning as Oregon's sext messages with Professor Shales ... ) 
 
This is a real guide to the first year of student life - the one the preachy official brochures and prospectuses don't tell you about. From UCAS applications to moving into a student house, from freshers' week to choosing courses and, more importantly, friends, the book records every detail - disgusting, exciting, tragic and triumphant - as the young ones stumble through university life. A scrap book of diary entries, emails, manifestos (including Howard's Rules for Everything) and guidelines it is crammed with saucy text messages, music playlists, facebook profiles, essays, poems, photos, drawings and paintings, as well as the housemates' musings on life, uni and everything. 
 
From Jesse Armstrong and Sam Bain, the acclaimed writers of Peep Show, this is the ultimate companion to Fresh Meat, the Best New British Comedy of 2011, starring Jack Whitehall, Robert Webb and Joe Thomas.

Jesse Armstrong

Praise for Fresh Meat

A worthy successor to The Inbetweeners ... the best programme about students since The Young Ones

I never thought I'd enjoy reliving the abject horror of my student days quite as much as I have

***** A superbly crafted comedy hit

A worthy successor to The Inbetweeners ... the best programme about students since The Young Ones

I never thought I'd enjoy reliving the abject horror of my student days quite as much as I have

***** A superbly crafted comedy hit

A worthy successor to The Inbetweeners ... the best programme about students since The Young Ones

I never thought I'd enjoy reliving the abject horror of my student days quite as much as I have

***** A superbly crafted comedy hit

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