East of Croydon
Travels through India and South East Asia inspired by her BBC 1 series 'The Ganges'
$26.99
- Paperback
400 pages
- Release Date
7 May 2019
Summary
A brand-new travel-inspired memoir from the fabulously funny Sue Perkins.
“A few years ago I was asked if I’d like to make a documentary on the Mekong River, travelling from the vast delta in Vietnam to the remote and snowy peaks of Tibet. Up until that point, the farthest East I’d been was Torremolinos, in the Costa Del Sol. Here’s the thing - I am scared of flying. I have zero practical skills. I can’t survive if I am more than a three-minute walk from a supermarket. For the last se…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781405938143 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 1405938145 |
| Author: | Sue Perkins |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 400 |
| Release Date: | 7 May 2019 |
| Weight: | 276g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 131mm x 25mm |
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Critics Review
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
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: * - *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 – Jessie Burton, Bestselling author of * 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 *About The Author
Sue Perkins
Sue Perkins is perhaps best known for being one half of double act Mel and Sue. Together, the pair have bounced, shouted and gurned their way through countless hours of television, most memorably Light Lunch and its later counterpart, 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.
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.
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