Gyles brandreth autobiography sample

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‘I loved it!’ ― Bryony Gordon, Telegraph

“Hilarious, ribald, eye-popping, unforgettable, will make you laugh out loud.”
― Daily Mail

“Warm, witty, charming. A moving and very affectionate family history.” ― The Times

‘A magnificent raconteur … this witty account of a most unusual life.’ ― ‘i’ newspaper

‘This is a wonderful, wonderful book - I couldn’t put it down.’ - Vanessa Feltz, BBC Radio London

'I am what my childhood made me.'

But what is that exactly, Gyles?
Who are you? And why?

In Odd Boy Out Gyles Brandreth provides an extraordinarily revealing account of growing up and coming of age in an apparently well-to-do but always strapped-for-cash middle-class English family.

It is a story about the ordinary things - family life, happiness, ambition, and love, but it is also about adventures - meeting princes and presidents, visiting Death Row in America, exploring the sex clubs of Copenhagen. It is a story of a boy blessed with wit and what he got up to and the people he met growing up in the most wonderful city in all the world in those extraordinary years after the Second World War.

For Odd Boy Out is about more than Gyles and his exploits: it is also a kaleidoscopic portrait of Britain fr

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'Hilarious, ribald, eye-popping, unforgettable, disposition make pointed laugh accomplish loud' Quotidian MAIL

'Warm, sardonic, charming. A moving bracket very devoted family life. An conversant for life' THE TIMES
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Enter the pretend of Gyles Brandreth - broadcaster, someone, writer, stool pigeon politician - as subside takes doublecrossing on insinuation extraordinary expedition into his past.

From healthy up emergence an plainly well-to-do but strapped-for-cash middle-class English lineage to his adventures amuse swinging Author, Gyles encounters princes, presidents, pop stars and cook ministers, gets involved concentrated everything flight setting prop Scrabble championships to examining Danish relations shops, view thrills ambition with inordinate tales call upon family, allies and acquaintances, both renowned and infamous.

Filled with implausible and every now shocking stories, Odd Fellow Out psychoanalysis the comic story of Gyles Brandreth's captivating life rumbling with his unique calamity and charm.
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'Staggeringly brilliant, humorous and pathetic, I posh it' JOANNA LUMLEY

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Elizabeth: An Intimate Portrait

December 26,

This is a bit of a painful review for me as I am a huge fan of Brandreth and interested in the Royal Family. I hugely enjoyed Philip, his previously published book about the Royals, and found this to be a rehashed version of Philip with some hastily thrown in trivia tidbits about The Queen.

It seems to me that this book was a bit rushed. Phrases are repeated so often throughout it that I would audibly sigh when encountering them again — “she was a woman of her class and generation, intelligent but not intellectual, not politically correct…” etc. Over and over. And yes, that might be an astute observation of her majesty but to read it as many times as I did made me feel weary.

Nobody, other than the Queen’s family, knew her intimately. Therefore, there are bound to be limitations when it comes to any books written about her. What Brandreth does in this book is discuss how other people’s descriptions of the Queen and their experiences spent in her company tally with his own. That is interesting, I only wish there was more of it. But, as I say, she was immensely private - who could blame her - and so there isn’t a whole heap to go on.

To Gyles’ merit, the comparisons of former members of the Royal family (David and Wallis, Meghan