NEWS! (5th May 2008)
Yesterday I did a short piece on Radio 4’s You and Yours programme about the delights of holidaying in Britain. My bit is about fifty minutes in. Just click on the ‘Monday Edition’ link on the BBC’s listen again page before May 12th.
NEWS! (27th April 2008) Three Men in the Telegraph, Launch Party and Float Video Pt 2
On Saturday (26th April) an extract from Three Men In A Float appeared in the Telegraph Weekend section. On May 1st we’re having a launch party for the Book of Idle Pleasures and the new issue of the Idler, edited by our friends at Qi. With a hog roast, courtesy of Qi co-founder John Mitchenson, some free beer and book stall it should be a cracker and if we can get her up to London in time The Mighty One might make an appearance too. Meanwhile, at threemeninafloat.com Ian’s put up part 2 of our milk float video, Slow Road Movie.
NEWS! (7th April 2008) Salisbury and Swindon Festival Appearances
I’m doing an event at the Swindon literary festival on May 7th (6.30pm). Tickets are £5 or if you want to come and see me and then AC Grayling afterwards you can get into both for £8. For more info click here.
On June 4th at 11.30am I’ll be in Salisbury. Tickets are £8, for more info click here
NEWS! (16th March 2008) Three new releases
This is the cover of Three Men In A Float, published on May 1st 2008. Ian’s put up a new website with some pictures from our journey to coincide with publication, to see it click here. I’ve also put up the covers for the paperback edition of I Fought The Law (out June 1st) and The Book of Idle Pleasures (out May 1st). For press/interview info click here. I’ve done a new blog entry (Part time Britain part 2) too.
NEWS! (27th February 2008) Three Men In A Float on Radio 4
Details of the half hour programme on Radio 4 about our trip can be found here
NEWS! (4th January 2008)
In my latest blog I’m going to try and solve all our problems by explaining how the UK can go part-time. To read it click here
NEWS! (3rd January 2008) George MacDonald Fraser
Yesterday the sad news of George MacDonald Fraser’s death was announced by his publisher. George was a masterful writer and all round lovely bloke, as I found out when I interviewed him a few years ago for the Idler. To read the unedited transcript click here
NEWS! (November 17th 2007)
NEWS! (28th October 2007) Falconry in the Times
I visited Gleneagles to try my hand at the ancient art of falconry a few weeks ago for the Times. To read the piece click here.
NEWS! (26th October 2007) I’m no longer writing this website in the third person
I’m not sure why I started to do it in the first place. Perhaps to give the impression that I have loads of people to do this website for me, when in reality I update it from my kitchen table myself. Referring to myself as ‘Dan’ all the time is starting to feel false and pretentious so I’m not going to do it any more.
NEWS! (3rd October 2007) Cheltenham Literary Festival
This Sunday (October 7th) Dan is being interviewed on stage about I Fought The Law at the Cheltenham Literary Festival. Tickets are £5 and available by clicking here
NEWS! (6th September 2007) Not So Fast
NEWS! (7th August 2007) Three Men In A Float (across England at 15 mph) on MTV!
Last week a clip of our trip made it onto MTV, Pras did this 5 minute tape to go with it. To watch it click here
NEWS! (27th June 2007) I Fought The Law is featured in the Times
From The Times, 25th June 2007, ‘ As the Prime Minister [Tony Blair] looks forward to life after No 10 and possibly a career at the United Nations, these are a few books he needs to read... Given the mass of legislation new Labour has passed over the past decade, I Fought the Law should be top of the list. Dan Kieran has compiled an entertaining account of trying to be a law-abiding citizen with so many laws to transgress. "Back in 1992 when Tony Blair was a lowly member of the Opposition he pledged that Labour would be ‘tough on crime and tough on the causes of crime’; few could have guessed that picnicking was what he had in mind." Kieran begins his journey into Blair’s Britain recalling people who had been arrested for "eating a picnic in Parliament Square”. ..read more
NEWS! (May 27th 2007)
NEWS! (May 3rd 2007) BRITAIN'S FIRST EVER ILLEGAL BOOK READING!*
To celebrate the publication of his new book, I Fought The Law, and to poke fun at some of New Labour's most absurd bits of legislation, Dan Kieran will be performing Britain's first ever illegal book reading outside Downing Street on Tuesday 8th May at 10am.
It seems that the Government are so desperate for people not to discover the contents of this explosive new tome (affordably priced at only £9.99) that they will probably even go so far as to arrest him. However, it is widely predicted among Whitehall sources that what this book contains is so shocking it may even be enough to prise Tony Blair from Downing Street once and for all.
If you're coming don't be fashionably late because if the Police take Section 132 of the Serious and Organised Crime and Police Act seriously, (the law that bans any spontaneous act of protest within 1km of Parliament) which surely they must because they are required to by law, at 10.30 he'll be in the cells at Charing Cross Police Station for holding a blank placard and reading his book. Then you'll have to buy it to discover the shocking, yet strangely optimistic and life-affirming, ending.
Contributions to pay his bail can be made by clicking here
Bullet Points:
Among many fascinating insights I Fought The Law explains why a flat pack chest of drawers is more likely to kill you than a suicide bomber.
Introduces the hitherto unknown hairy history expert paid to have custard pies thrown in his beard by Ant and Dec.
NEWS! (April 28th 2007) I Fought The Law’s first reviews
“Absolutely fantastic! Everyone who lives in Britain should be made to read it.” LBC Radio
★★★★ MAXIM Magazine
★★★★ MAXIM Magazine
NEWS! (April 26th 2007) Illegal book reading outside Downing Street on May 8th
Dan will be staging an illegal demonstration, by reading his new book while holding a placard outside Downing Street, on May 8th. If you want to come along to see if he gets arrested then check back here on May 7th when the start time will be announced.
NEWS! (April 8th 2007) Serialisation deal
The Sunday Times published an edited extract from I Fought The Law called Goodbye Magna Carta on the front page of their news review section on Sunday April 8th 2007. To read the extract and feedback from their readers on timesonline click here
I Fought The Law will be published by Bantam Press on 7th May. Above is an exclusive preview of the front cover. It can be pre-ordered from amazon.
Planning is also underway for Three Men In A Float. Dan, Ian Vince and their friend Prasanth Visweswarian will be driving across England in a milk float in June for a book and BBC Radio 4 programe. If you live anywhere along this (very rough) route and you’d like to volunteer the nocturnal use of your electricity supply (the milk float requires 8 hours of overnight charging so it can carry on the journey the following day) then please email dan.
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