Only Fools and Stories: From Del Boy to Granville, Pop Larkin to Frost
Oct 2017 · Random House
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*** The Hilarious Number One Sunday Times Bestseller! ***
The follow-up autobiography to one of Britain’s best loved actors and national treasures
*As seen in David and Jay’s Touring Toolshed on BBC Two*
In his first book David Jason told us about himself from his early years training as an electrician through to making it as one of Britain's greatest actors.
This autumn, in a follow up autobiography, he tells us about the many other lives he has lived – his characters. From Del Boy to Granville, Pop Larkin to Frost, he takes us behind the scenes and under the skins of some of the best loved acts of his career.
And in the process he reflects on how those characters changed his life too. The result told with his characteristic charm and wit is both funny and poignant, honest and heart warming.
The follow-up autobiography to one of Britain’s best loved actors and national treasures
*As seen in David and Jay’s Touring Toolshed on BBC Two*
In his first book David Jason told us about himself from his early years training as an electrician through to making it as one of Britain's greatest actors.
This autumn, in a follow up autobiography, he tells us about the many other lives he has lived – his characters. From Del Boy to Granville, Pop Larkin to Frost, he takes us behind the scenes and under the skins of some of the best loved acts of his career.
And in the process he reflects on how those characters changed his life too. The result told with his characteristic charm and wit is both funny and poignant, honest and heart warming.
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Paul Cooney
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June 17, 2018
Entertaining in parts, but it does give the impression of being a bit
padded out - especially the last third of the book. Some funny anecdotes
but these could have been included in the first autobiography published
only a few years previously. And, really, does it need an index? A very
detailed index. It's not as if people will be using it as a reference book.
This is what I mean about the book being padded out, possibly because,
strangely, there wasn't enough material.
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A Google user
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October 23, 2017
A joy to read
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About the author
Sir David Jason was born in 1940 in North London. His acting career has been long and varied: from his theatre work in the West End to providing the voices of Mr Toad from The Wind in the Willows, Dangermouse and The BFG. From Open All Hours to The Darling Buds of May to his starring roles as Detective Inspector Frost in A Touch of Frost and, of course, Derek 'Del Boy' Trotter in Only Fools and Horses.
The 1996 Only Fools Christmas special 'Time on Our Hands' was seen live by 24.35 million viewers and to this day is the UK's most-watched comedy show of all time.
David Jason is the author of three No.1 Sunday Times bestselling books: My Life; Only Fools & Stories and A Del of a Life.
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