Spanning 1979-1987 The Fry Chronicles charts Stephen Fry's arrival at Cambridge up to his thirtieth birthday ' Heartbreaking a delight a lovely comfy book' The Times ' Perfect prose & excruciating honesty A grand reminiscence of college & theatre & comedyland in the 1980s with tone-perfect anecdotes & genuine readerly excitement What Fry does essentially is tell us who he really is Above all else a thoughtful book & namedroppy too & funny & marbled with melancholy' Observer ' Arguably the greatest living Englishman' Independent on Sunday ' Extremely enjoyable' Sunday Times ' Fry's linguistic facility remains one of the Wildean wonders of the new media age The patron saint of British intelligence' Daily Telegraph Welcome to Stephen Fry's The Fry Chronicles one of the boldest bravest most revealing & heartfelt accounts of a man's formative years that you will ever have the exquisite pleasure of reading Stephen Fry's film stage radio & television credits are so numerous & wide-ranging that there is not space here to do them justice It is enough to say that he has written produced directed acted in or presented productions as varied as Wilde the TV series Blackadder & Jeeves & Wooster the sketch show A Bit of Fry & Laurie the panel game QI the radio series Fry's English Delight & documentaries on subjects as varied as manic depression disappearing animals & the United States of America He's also the bestselling author of four novels
- The Stars' Tennis Balls Making History The Hippopotamus & The Liar
- as well as a volume of autobiography Moab is My Washpot & sundry works of non-fiction