Odd Boy Out

By: Gyles Brandreth

Narrated by: Gyles Brandreth

Brought to you by Penguin.

The long-awaited autobiography from beloved star of Just a Minute, QI, Have I Got News For You and Celebrity Gogglebox.

There are few people Gyles Brandreth doesn't know or hasn't met - from the queen to the Sex Pistols, Mandela and Marlene Dietrich to T. S. Eliot, he's the celebrities' celebrity, as familiar and welcome to us on radio and screens as biscuits are to a cup of tea.

Now a grandparent, looking back on his remarkable life, he traces his steps back to being a three-year-old tearing around 1950s London on his tricycle, to boarding school where he had an appendix removed simply to get out of football, to Bedales, where he met Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall (and became intimate with a matron), to balancing his growing love of theatre with his love for educating, the 'woolly jumper years', the stint as an MP, the years of close friendship with the queen, to becoming a septuagenarian Twitter star and stalwart fixture in British entertainment.

Throughout it all, there are lessons to be learned as Gyles derives wisdom and wit from his extraordinary encounters. Full of stories and full of heart, this is Gyles as you don't yet know him.

©2021 Gyles Brandreth (P)2021 Penguin Audio

I think you have to be a massive fan of his to really enjoy this book

He name drops and brags his way through this whole book, but that’s really what I expected him to do! I love seeing him on shows like QI and Would I Lie to You, but as an American, I missed many of the cultural references to actors, radio personalities, and politicians. I still enjoyed the stories anyway, but even for me, a big fan, it got old at some point.

Odd Boy Out

What an amazing story and life well lived! Mr. Brandreth is pure talent and quite the character!

An enjoyable evening with Gyles

I hate that I learned about this man on!y just lately,,,, thanks to QI. this was an excellent book about the life and times of Gyles.Who knew,,,, am endeavor ing to read his other books including Lets Eat Gramma. Absolutly recommend this book.