Semi-Detached

Author: Griff Rhys Jones

Semi-Detached is Griff Rhys Jones’s own account of his ordinary suburban childhood; of adolescent scraps and scrapes; of coming of age in the 1960s and 70s; of family and university life; and of times lost or at least fuzzy around the edges.It’s a powerful, moving and above all touchingly funny memoir of how one of the nation’s most popular comics and personalities got fro….Read More

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