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Competition 2815: Self help
You are invited to contribute to the ever-flourishing genre of self-help by proposing a new title that will storm the bestseller lists and providing a blurb for it of up to 150 words. The brilliant duo Lawrence Douglas and Alexander George have already done this. Their suggestion, a surefire hit in this age of self-obsession, is I’m Okay, I’m Okay: Accepting Narcissism, a ‘manual for creative self-absorption’ which is ‘attractively presented in a mirrored dust jacket’. Please email entries, wherever possible, to
lucy@spectator.co.uk by midday on 11 September.