David Mitchell, who you may know for his inappropriate anger on every TV panel show except Never Mind the Buzzcocks, his look of permanent discomfort on C4 sex comedy Peep Show, his online commenter-baiting in The Observer or just for wearing a stick-on moustache in That Mitchell and Webb Look, has written a book about his life.
Chapter 1. The Fawlty Towers Years
Chapter 2. Inventing Fleet Street
Chapter 3. Light-houses, My Boy!
Chapter 5. The Pianist and the Fisherman
Chapter 7. Civis Britannicus Sum
Chapter 8. The Mystery of the Unexplained Pole
Chapter 9. Beatings and Crisps
Chapter 10. The Smell of the Crowd
Chapter 11. Cross-Dressing, Cards and Cocaine
Chapter 12. Presidents of the Galaxy
Chapter 14. Play It Nice and Cool, Son
Chapter 15. Teenage Thrills: First Love, and the Rotary Club Public Speaking Competition
Chapter 16. Where Did You Get That Hat?
Chapter 17. I Am Not a Cider Drinker
Chapter 18. Enthusiasm in Basements
Chapter 20. The Cause of and Answer to All of Life’s Problems
Chapter 23. We Said We Wouldn’t Look Back
Chapter 24. The Lager’s Just Run Out
Chapter 27. Causes of Celebration
Chapter 29. Are You Sitting Down?
Chapter 32. Lovely Spam, Wonderful Spam
Chapter 33. The Work–Work Balance
Chapter 34. The End of the Beginning