Who Stole My Spear?

Tim Samuels knows it isn't always easy to be a man. In a disarmingly honest and funny way, he sets about revealing and challenging many of the ways men now find themselves living - taking on everything from war, religion and pornography, to fatherhood and relationships. The book is important as well as charming: something for many men, and as importantly women, to read, learn and be consoled by.

Alain de Botton

So THAT’S what they’re thinking, a fascinating peep behind the curtains of the 21st century male psyche… Hilarious, witty, insightful, and unique

Helen Fielding, author of Bridget Jones

Insightful, funny, and honest, Who Stole My Spear? is a great guide not to Real Man but to real men

David Baddiel

A soul-baring attempt to figure out what it means to be masculine

Louis Theroux

Pick of the Month

Vanity Fair

Brilliant

Daily Telegraph

While it is often very funny, it is also insightful, both independently and in the context of broader thinking about the predicament of contemporary men… A delight… moving… and in an ambitiously hybrid form, he bolsters these observations with reporting (he is a radio host and television journalist, who has covered immigration to Britain and America’s death row), plus research into the anthropology and history of masculinity.

Economist

I laughed a lot. And cried some, but only on the inside. Which is where a man cries

David Duchovny

A much-needed manual for modern man… with soul searching, honesty and humour

Irish Sunday Independent