Nul Points

Tim Moore

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Published by Vintage, part of Vintage Publishing

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EAN: 9780099492979
Published: 3 May 2007

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The spangled insanity, the stubborn reinforcement of crude national stereotypes, the scoreboard shamelessly corrupted by cross-border friendship and hatred... throughout those long post-ABBA decades, the Eurovision Song Contest has been drawing 450 million of us to the sofa for all the wrong reasons. And the most gloriously wrong of all: our enduring fascination with the unfortunates left to wander the desolate summit of Mount Fiasco without a point to their names.

From Lisbon to Liverpool, from the Black Sea to the Baltic, Tim Moore travels the continent to track down the thirteen Eurominstrels who suffered the entertainment world's prime humiliation.

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What the critics say

The world's funniest travel writer turns his pen to the Eurovision Song Contest
- Observer

We love travel humourist Tim Moore's take on the Eurovision ultra-losers
- Sunday Times

It makes for a diverting trip and Moore's glib, easily digested comic style is well suited to these tales of defiance and depression and pride curdled with paranoia
- Metro

Moore is a talented and very funny writer
- Daily Telegraph

Funny and unhinged- there is something beautifully true to the Eurovision spirit about Nul Points
- Independent

He can't help writing amusingly: it's in his DNA... a sometimes blisteringly funny account of surprisingly sad lives
- Sunday Telegraph

It's inevitably Tim Moore's pseudo-forensic take on the whole madness which makes it so much fun
- Daily Mail

There is something engaging and even informative in the book's portrait of the less glamorous side of Europe's pop musical industries
- Irish Times

Hums and strums along genially, with a generous and unkitsch affection
- Guardian

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