or
Sign in to turn on 1-Click ordering.
 
 
More Buying Choices
15 new from £10.65
Have one to sell? Sell yours here
 
   
My Favourite People and Me 1978-1988
 
See larger image 
Share your own customer images
Publisher: learn how customers can search inside this book.

My Favourite People and Me 1978-1988 (Hardcover)

by Alan Davies (Author)
4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
RRP: £18.99
Price: £11.37 & this item Delivered FREE in the UK with Super Saver Delivery. See details and conditions
You Save: £7.62 (40%)
o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o
In stock.
Dispatched from and sold by Amazon.co.uk. Gift-wrap available.

Want guaranteed delivery by Thursday, November 12? Choose Express delivery at checkout. See Details
15 new from £10.65
Other Editions: RRP: Our Price: Other Offers:
Unknown Binding 4 used & new from £20.46

Watch a Related Video
06:27

Special Offers and Product Promotions

Frequently Bought Together

My Favourite People and Me 1978-1988 + Look Back in Hunger: The Autobiography + Saturday Night Peter
Price For All Three: £30.35

Show availability and shipping details

Customers Who Bought This Item Also Bought

Look Back in Hunger: The Autobiography

Look Back in Hunger: The Autobiography

by Jo Brand
4.0 out of 5 stars (10)  £9.00
Alan Davies - Lafter Hours [DVD]

Alan Davies - Lafter Hours [DVD]

DVD ~ Alan Davies
2.6 out of 5 stars (9)  £6.58
Good Times!

Good Times!

by Justin Lee Collins
4.6 out of 5 stars (7)  £10.29
Thanks for Nothing

Thanks for Nothing

by Jack Dee
4.8 out of 5 stars (4)  £8.99
Jonathan Creek - The Grinning Man [DVD] [2009]

Jonathan Creek - The Grinning Man [DVD] [2009]

DVD ~ Alan Davies
4.7 out of 5 stars (3)  £10.98
› Explore similar items

Product details

  • Hardcover: 408 pages
  • Publisher: Michael Joseph (3 Sep 2009)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0718154878
  • ISBN-13: 978-0718154875
  • Product Dimensions: 23.6 x 14.8 x 3.8 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 687 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

    Popular in these categories:

    #7 in  Books > Music, Stage & Screen > Performing Arts
    #12 in  Books > Music, Stage & Screen > Film > Biographies
    #12 in  Books > Biography > Film, Television & Music > Actors & Actresses

    •  Would you like to update product info or give feedback on images?

Customers Viewing This Page May Be Interested in These Sponsored Links

  (What is this?)
   My Favourite People opens new browser window
www.BookFly.co.uk  -  and Me By Alan Davies Save Upto 40% On Your Books 
   Famous+people opens new browser window
www.Ask.com  -  Find the Best Results for Famous+people. Ask us! 
  
 

Product Description

Product Description

Alan Davies was always a hoarder. Pages from Smash Hits, rolled up gig posters, Cup Final ticket stubs, Woody Allen paperbacks, NME covers and Blondie calendars filled boxes once used to ferry shopping home from supermarkets (back when supermarkets would leave boxes out for the ferrying of shopping). Not much that came down from Alan’s bedroom wall made it into the bin, never mind the uninvented bin-liner. Growing up is not easy. So many decisions: Who to revere, Sheene or McEnroe? Who to imitate, Starsky or Hutch? Who to dislike overnight in an effort to show maturity, Thatcher or Scargill? How to decide which pin-ups to unpin when a batch of Animal Rights leaflets or a satirical poster of Ronald Reagan demand wallspace? The Impressionable Age of a young man lasts around a decade and the idols and icons of that period can reveal much of the time and of the impressed subject. Nostalgic, warm and laugh-out-loud funny My Favourite People and Me 1978-1988 is an affectionate trip through a suburban childhood in Essex and an eighties education in Kent. As Alan says, ‘an attempt to remember who and what I liked as a boy/youth/idiot and to work out why. There are also some pictures.’


About the Author

Alan Davies is a comedian, writer and actor, best known for starring in the hit BBC series Jonathan Creek and his regular appearances as a panellist on QI. My Favourite People and Me 1978 - 1988 is his first book.

Tags Customers Associate with This Product

 (What's this?)
Click on a tag to find related items, discussions, and people.
 
(2)
(2)
(1)

Your tags: Add your first tag
 
See most popular tags

What Do Customers Ultimately Buy After Viewing This Item?

My Favourite People and Me 1978-1988
92% buy the item featured on this page:
My Favourite People and Me 1978-1988 4.0 out of 5 stars (2)
£11.37
Look Back in Hunger: The Autobiography
3% buy
Look Back in Hunger: The Autobiography 4.0 out of 5 stars (10)
£9.00
My Shit Life So Far
2% buy
My Shit Life So Far 4.4 out of 5 stars (14)
£7.95
The Lost Symbol
2% buy
The Lost Symbol 3.2 out of 5 stars (409)
£9.00
Explore similar items
 

Customer Reviews

2 Reviews
5 star:
 (1)
4 star:    (0)
3 star:
 (1)
2 star:    (0)
1 star:    (0)
 
 
 
 
 
Average Customer Review
4.0 out of 5 stars (2 customer reviews)
 
 
 
 
Share your thoughts with other customers:
Most Helpful Customer Reviews

 
4 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars A really good book, 11 Oct 2009
By Mr. Aj Baugh "xrd" (hull) - See all my reviews
(REAL NAME)   
This book is funny, sad and intelligent. Buy it. He does not have beautiful hand writing and he has managed to do well academically, so he is a hero for us scribblers and people who do not give in tidy manuscripts in exams. A bright guy who likes Chekhov.Seagull is one of his favourites like me.
Comment Comment | Permalink | Was this review helpful to you? Yes No (Report this)



 
0 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars Only quite interesting, 16 Oct 2009
By Bantam Dave (Bradford, UK) - See all my reviews
(TOP 1000 REVIEWER)      
Perhaps it's because he is alongside some very sharp witted people but on BBC TV's QI I usually find resident panellist Alan Davies's contributions to be irritating rather than funny. Appropriately that's exactly how I found his book - more irritating than funny.

For each year of his life between the age of twelve and twenty two he writes about his favourite people, not in a biographical way but instead how they have affected his life

For a book written by a comedian I would have expected it to be a little more humorous than it turns out to be. Whilst much of the book is actually quite good, the good parts tend to be a little swamped by the dull parts, of which there are too many - in particular the `political' sections. Maybe he has included these to give the book a little balance, if so he has over done it as I found them to be tiresome and out of place in a book like this.

Apart from the death of his mother when he was young, compared to some celebrities Alan Davies had a fairly uneventful upbringing, and this is probably the reason why this book fails to engage - there is little of real interest that he could write about, and it shows.

As the title of the book is `My favourite people & me 1978 -1988', this suggests there may be further books dealing with the ensuing years. I think I'll give them a miss if there are.
Comment Comment | Permalink | Was this review helpful to you? Yes No (Report this)


Share your thoughts with other customers: Create your own review
 
 
 
Only search this product's reviews


Customer Discussions

This product's forum
Discussion Replies Latest Post
No discussions yet

Ask questions, Share opinions, Gain insight
Start a new discussion
Topic:
First post:
Prompts for sign-in
 


Active discussions in related forums
   
Related forums

Listmania!

Create a Listmania! list

Look for similar items by category

Look for similar items by subject











i.e., each product must be in subject 1 AND subject 2 AND ...

Feedback

Ad

Your Recent History

 (What's this?)

After viewing product detail pages or search results, look here to find an easy way to navigate back to pages you are interested in.