Between the Stops: The View of My Life from the Top of the Number 12 Bus: the long-awaited memoir from the star of QI and The Great British Bake Off - Couverture rigide

Toksvig, Sandi

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0349006377 ISBN 13 : 9780349006376

Editeur : Virago, 2019

Synopsis

This long-awaited memoir from one of Britain's best-loved celebrities - a writer, broadcaster, activist, comic on stage, screen and radio for nearly forty years, presenter of QI and Great British Bake Off star - is an autobiography with a difference: as only Sandi Toksvig can tell it.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Sandi Toksvig went into theatre as a writer and performer after graduating from Cambridge. Well known for her television and radio work as a presenter, writer and actor, she has written more than twenty books for children and adults. She also writes for theatre and television: her film The Man starred Stephen Fry and Zoe Wanamaker and her play Bully Boy starring Anthony Andrews opened the St James Theatre, London in 2012. She was Chancellor of Portsmouth University from 2012 to 2017. In 2016 Sandi took over as chair on QI, and in 2017 she started presenting The Great British Bake Off. She lives in London and Kent.

À propos de la quatrième de couverture

`This is not a journey that begins by heading out into the wild blue but instead starts with a walk under a grey sky to a bus stop... It's my kind of memoir'

À propos de la deuxième de couverture

Sandi Toksvig, writer, broadcaster, activist, comic on stage, screen and radio for nearly forty years, presenter of QI and Great British Bake Off star could, of course, only write an autobiography with a difference.

` It's about a bus trip really, because it's my view from the Number 12 bus (mostly top deck, the seat at the front on the right). It's not a sensible way to write a memoir at all, probably, but things pop into your head as you travel, so it's my way'.

From London facts including where to find the blue plaque for Una Marson, 'The first black woman programme maker at the BBC' to a brief history of lady gangsters at Elephant and Castle, from memories of climbing Mount Sinai and, at the request of a fellow traveller, reading aloud the Ten Commandments to performing in Footlights with Emma Thompson, this book is full of surprises. Painful memoires of boarding school sit alongside thoughts of Wombells' 1864 Travelling Circus haunting Peckham Rye; anecdotes about the Graham Norton Show follows tales of Bake-Off antics. And there is much on family and friends including stories of a lasting kinship with John McCarthy and the daunting navigation of the Zambezi River in her father's canoe.

Says Sandi `It's not as if all my life flashed before me; but much has resurfaced: the solace of books, the love of my dear departed father; the drama and relief of coming out; finding love; my passion for theatre; my drive for justice; an understanding of a kind of loneliness that will forever haunt me; and how I ended up at sixty years old riding a double-decker bus.'

Between the Stops is also an inspiration to put down our phones and look up because: 'some of the greatest trips lie on our own doorstep'.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Virago
• Date d'édition: 2019
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0349006377
• ISBN 13: 9780349006376
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 320
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible