Odd Boy Out by Gyles Brandreth

'I am what my childhood made me.'

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 from the 1950s onwards, featuring a cast drawn from politics, the media, swinging London, stage and screen, from Laurence Olivier to Twiggy.

By turns hilarious and moving, and chock full of unforgettable stories, Odd Boy Out is the unexpected and candid autobiography of one of the country's most unlikely personalities. Yet at root it is a powerful and passionate exploration of childhood - how our heritage, our parents and our upbringing make us who we are.

Pre-order the long-awaited autobiography from beloved star of Just a Minute, QI, Have I Got News For You and Celebrity Gogglebox on Amazon: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Odd-Boy-Out-Gyles-Brandreth/dp/0241483719/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr= 

Presented in association with Clive Conway Productions, you can also join Gyles Brandreth at The Old Woollen in Leeds on 9th October 2021 at 7pm where he will discuss his autobiography. To purchase your ticket, please visit https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/gyles-brandreth-odd-boy-out-tickets-150147546353 

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