Renaissance Nation by David McWilliams

(Gill)

From the celebrity economist who coined such characters as Breakfast Roll Man comes a whole new vocabulary in a tale that tells of how two of his creations born at the time of Pope John Paul II’s visit in 1979 (aka The Pope’s Children) made us what we are today. In this Renaissance Nation, we get a of gallery of stereotypes with hilarious makey-up handles such as

Wexicans (Dubliners forced out of the capital by high house prices), Dad Bod (middle-aged man in Lycra on a bike) and Happy Pear Man (he used to be Breakfast Roll Man apparently).