Author(s): Davies Alan

Humour

In a unique memoir that's part Nick Hornby, part Where Did It All Go Right, Alan Davies tells the story of growing up in a house in Essex in the 1980s where the TV was never turned off. While his dad tried to bring up his three children alone, Alan did his best to pursue life outside of the school he labelled 'The House of Fascists and Bullies'. His bedroom walls reflected his changing enthusiasms. From Charlie's Angels to Paul Weller, pictures and posters were put up and pulled down with indecent haste as Alan's interests veered wildly through a list that included Debbie Harry, nicking stuff, Adam and the Ants, tagging the back of bus seats in indelible marker, chicken's lib and Jimmy White. But always football. And always Arsenal. Warm, personal and laugh out-loud-funny, My Favourite People is both autobiography and nostalgia-fest. 'An attempt,' as Alan puts it, 'to remember what I liked as a boy/youth/idiot and to work out why. There are also, he promises, 'some pictures . . .'