God - Softcover

Immensely entertaining, and a sovereign remedy against the absurdities and dangers of religious belief ... funny and whimsical ... clever and perceptive (A C Grayling, Literary Review)

a highly readable book (Newcastle Journal)

[a] sprightly exercise in comparative religion. Mr Waugh is intelligent and his breadth of reading is admirable (Sunday Telegraph)

Peculiar and delightful... I loved it. Waugh's light-hearted approach is deceptive: some formidable research has gone into this book (Douglas Kennedy, Mail on Sunday)

A deeply felt and genuine exploration... Waugh's biography is a search for love - and strangely, the god he leaves us with, however impossible, remains attractive. (Jeanette Winterson, The Times)

This is a learned guide to theology in a jokey guise (Independent)

It should really be God: Unauthorized... Waugh draws on such a broad gamut of respected, accepted and worshipped sources, this is probably as close as we'll ever get to finding out what God is actually like (Scotsman)

Ten out of ten for the idea, the approach, the style, the writing - above all, the writing - and the sublime audacity of it all ... Waugh writes like an impious angel; wittily and rivetingly (Michael Brown, Yorkshire Post)

A testimony to human ingenuity and imagination...Waugh's GOD combines philosophical wrangling with the delightfully insolent tone of 1066 AND ALL THAT (Christopher Silvester, Financial Times)

[Waugh's] sardonic, urbane tone is in the tradition of Gibbon or Hume...very funny. Pleasingly original...wherever you stand - or think you do - on the God question, this is a good read (Susan Elkin, Independent)

Where does God come from? Has he always existed? What kind of food does he eat? The answers to all these questions, small and large, are in the Bible, or have been written about by those who know him best - saints, popes and visionaries. In this fascinating account of God's life, Alexander Waugh, author of TIME, tackles the biggest subject of them all in his uniquely refreshing and enthusiastic style. So many stories about God have been forgotten, or edged out of the familiar tales that we have lost our understanding of him and how he has been viewed by mankind throughout the ages. Now we can once again find out more about who it is that we pray to.