A brand-new travel inspired memoir from the fabulously funny, Sue Perkins.
Sue Perkins is perhaps best known for being one half of double act
Mel and Sue, where she plays the part of Mel. Together, the pair
have bounced, shouted and gurned their way through countless hours
of television, most memorably Light Lunch and its later
counterpart, the imaginatively titled Late Lunch.
Over the years, Sue has worked on a wide range of solo projects,
including documentaries on art, popular fiction and history. In
2008 she appeared on the BBC show Maestro, culminating in her
conducting at the Last Night of the Proms. She has also
collaborated with food-critic Giles Coren on the Supersizers
series, where the duo power-ate their way through five centuries of
lungs, livers and testicles whilst half-cut on sherry.
Sue hosts the panel show, Insert Name Here, as well as being a
regular contributor to Just A Minute, QI and The Last Leg. She is
also the presenter of the Game of Thrones companion show,
Thronecast.
East of Croydon is Sue's second book. Her first, Spectacles, was a
Sunday Times bestseller.
Oh, and she used to do a cake show on BBC1
@sueperkins
Alongside laugh-out-loud travel stories, the book also provides a
moving account of her coming to terms with her father's death
*Daily Mirror*
Vivid, laugh-out-loud, moving
*Sunday Express*
Alongside a wealth of vivid and hilarious travel stories, Sue also
writes movingly about coming to terms with the recent death of her
father as she stands beside the Ganges
*Daily Express*
The former Bake Off presenter journeys far out of her comfort zone
on travels from India to Indonesia, sharing entertaining travel
stories and a moving account of grieving for her father
*Pick of the holiday reads, Daily Mirror*
An unvarnished, endearing and very funny account
*Woman & Home*
Part memoir, part travel guide. A fab account full of wit and
emotion
*Prima*
Her misadventures deliver laughs aplenty, but she's also engaged
with the places, politics and crucially, the people. Enjoyable,
interesting and often moving
*Book of the month, Wanderlust*
Praise for Spectacles:
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Drama, tears and laughs - Spectacles has got it all. A brilliant,
touching memoir suffused with love, it reminds you that life is
best lived at wonky angles. I ADORED it
*The Miniaturist*
Very funny . . . It seems there are two Sue Perkins: the TV one,
who gabbles and pratfalls, and the sensitive one who aches. The
first of course, exists to protect the second. They can both write.
The first writes comedy, the second tragedy; in this sense, reading
her memoir is very like meeting her
*Sunday Times*
It's a proper book . . . so well written. Tight & bright & full of
inspiration
*Radio 2*
Utterly wonderful. It's very, very funny and poignant and it's very
Sue Perkins and that's the bliss of it
*Love, Nina and Man at the Helm*
Relentlessly cheering, Spectacles is as charming and funny as
Perkins herself. Like going for a long, slightly drunken lunch with
your naughtiest friend
*Red Magazine*
Brilliantly written . . . fearlessly honest and full of heart, it
will also make you laugh like a gibbon
*Heat ******
I absolutely loved it . . . whip smart and very funny
*Woman & Home*
Life, love and loss - it's all here ... Warm, crisp and beautifully
layered - like its author, Spectacles is a complete delight
*Independent on Sunday*
[A] deftly written and belly-laugh funny autobiography . . . Though
she never suggests she might be remotely brainy, she clearly is.
Her vocabulary makes Will Self's seem lacking, her writing is full
of discreetly clever allusions . . . If she wants her readers to
like her, she certainly achieved it with this reviewer who laughed
and cried and secretly wants her as a best friend
*Daily Express*
Sue's memoir will leave you feeling like you've made a new best
friend. Introducing us to a cast of friends, family and love
interests, and not forgetting a psychopathic nun, Sue picks apart
life in a refreshingly honest, warm and downright hilarious way...
Spectacles firmly cements her as an exciting writer of the
future
*OK Magazine*
This smart and funny story is far from the photo-heavy,
ghost-written volumes that it will compete with . . . Perkins is
such a good writer . . . incapable of writing a boring sentence
*Sunday Express*
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