Peter Kay's unerring gift for observing the absurdities & eccentricities of family life has earned himself a widespread, everyman appeal. These vivid observations coupled with a kind of nostalgia that never fails to grab his audience's shared understanding, have earned him comparisons with Alan Bennett & Ronnie Barker.

In his award winning TV series' he creates worlds populated by degenerate, bitter, useless, endearing & always recognisable characters which have attracted a huge & loyal following.

In many ways he's an old fashioned kind of comedian & the scope & enormity of his fanbase reflects this. He doesn't tell jokes about politics or sex, but rather rejoices in the far funnier areas of life: elderly relatives & answering machines, dads dancing badly at weddings, garlic bread & cheesecake, your mum's HRT...

His autobiography is full of this kind of humour & nostalgia, beginning with Kay's first ever driving lesson, taking him back through his Bolton childhood, the numerous jobs he held after school & leading up until the time he passed his driving test & found fame.





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Peter Kay's unerring gift for observing the absurdities & eccentricities of family life has earned himself a widespread, everyman appeal. These vivid observations coupled with a kind of nostalgia that never fails to grab his audience's shared understanding, have earned him comparisons with Alan Bennett & Ronnie Barker.

In his award winning TV series' he creates worlds populated by degenerate, bitter, useless, endearing & always recognisable characters which have attracted a huge & loyal following.

In many ways he's an old fashioned kind of comedian & the scope & enormity of his fanbase reflects this. He doesn't tell jokes about politics or sex, but rather rejoices in the far funnier areas of life: elderly relatives & answering machines, dads dancing badly at weddings, garlic bread & cheesecake, your mum's HRT...

His autobiography is full of this kind of humour & nostalgia, beginning with Kay's first ever driving lesson, taking him back through his Bolton childhood, the numerous jobs he held after school & leading up until the time he passed his driving test & found fame.





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Peter Kay's unerring gift for observing the absurdities & eccentricities of family life has earned himself a widespread, everyman appeal. These vivid observations coupled with a kind of nostalgia that never fails to grab his audience's shared understanding, have earned him comparisons with Alan Bennett & Ronnie Barker.

In his award winning TV series' he creates worlds populated by degenerate, bitter, useless, endearing & always recognisable characters which have attracted a huge & loyal following.

In many ways he's an old fashioned kind of comedian & the scope & enormity of his fanbase reflects this. He doesn't tell jokes about politics or sex, but rather rejoices in the far funnier areas of life: elderly relatives & answering machines, dads dancing badly at weddings, garlic bread & cheesecake, your mum's HRT...

His autobiography is full of this kind of humour & nostalgia, beginning with Kay's first ever driving lesson, taking him back through his Bolton childhood, the numerous jobs he held after school & leading up until the time he passed his driving test & found fame.





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Set in a remote fishing village in Japan, THE SOUND OF WAVES is a timeless story of first love. It tells of Shinji, a young fisherman & Hatsue, the beautiful daughter of the wealthiest man in the village. Shinji is entranced at the sight of Hatsue in the twilight on the beach, upon her return from another isl&, where she had been training to be a pearl driver. They fall in love, but must then endure the calumny & gossip of the villagers. ...

The Source threads together two stories. The first that of Ursula Sontheil, sometimes known as Mother Shipton, the ...