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East of Croydon: Travels through India and South East Asia inspired by her BBC 1 series ''The Ganges''

English

By (author): Sue Perkins

Follow Sue Perkins' extraordinary adventures across southern Asia in this fabulously funny travelling tale - inspired by her BBC 1 documentary series 'The Ganges with Sue Perkins'

Pick of the holiday reads - Daily Mirror

'Vivid, laugh-out-loud, moving' Sunday Express

'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 seven years I have suffered with crippling anxiety.
I bolt when panicked.
I cannot bear to witness humans or animals in distress.
I have no ability to learn languages.
I am a terrible hypochondriac.

Oh, and I am no good with boats.

So I said yes.'

SHORTLISTED FOR AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF THE YEAR AT THE 2018 NATIONAL BOOK AWARDS

'Part memoir, part travel guide. A fab account full of wit and emotion' Prima

'An unvarnished, endearing and very funny account' Woman & Home

'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
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Praise for Spectacles:

'Utterly wonderful. It's very, very funny and poignant' Nina Stibbe, bestselling author of Reasons to be Cheerful

'Very funny ... reading her memoir is very like meeting her' Sunday Times

'Charming and funny .... Like going for a long, slightly drunken lunch with your naughtiest friend' Red

'Brilliantly written... fearlessly honest and full of heart, it will also make you laugh like a gibbon' Heat

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Product Details
  • Weight: 277g
  • Dimensions: 129 x 198mm
  • Publication Date: 02 May 2019
  • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
  • Publication City/Country: United Kingdom
  • Language: English
  • ISBN13: 9781405938143

About 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

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