David Mitchell Back Story, David Mitchell
David Mitchell Back Story, David Mitchell
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David Mitchell: Back Story

Author: David Mitchell

Narrator: David Mitchell

Unabridged: 9 hr 25 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: HarperCollins

Published: 10/11/2012

Synopsis

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. As well as giving a specific account of every single time he's scored some smack, this disgusting memoir also details: the singular, pitbull-infested charm of the FRP (‘Flat Roofed Pub’) the curious French habit of injecting everyone in the arse rather than the arm why, by the time he got to Cambridge, he really, really needed a drink the pain of being denied a childhood birthday party at McDonalds the satisfaction of writing jokes about suicide how doing quite a lot of walking around London helps with his sciatica trying to pretend he isn’t a total **** at Robert Webb’s wedding that he has fallen in love at LOT, but rarely done anything about it why it would be worse to bump into Michael Palin than Hitler on holiday that he’s not David Mitchell the novelist. Despite what David Miliband might think

About David Mitchell

English born author, David Stephen Mitchell is a novelist and screenwriter. He was born in Southport and raised in Malvern, Worcestershire, where he attended Hanley Castle High School. He also attended and graduated from the University of Kent, with a degree in English and American literature. He then completed his M.A. in Comparative Literature.

Mitchell has lived in different areas of the world. He lived for a year in Sicily, then moved to Hiroshima, Japan where he taught English for eight years. He then returned to England to focus his efforts on writing, and became financially capable of earning a living with his writing.

Mitchell has awards and best sellers from his body of work: The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet, Black Swan Green, Cloud Atlas, Number9Dream, Ghostwritter and The Bone Clocks. After the release of his novel adapted for screen, Cloud Atlas, Mitchell became a screenwriter. In collaboration with others, he wrote the series finale of the television series, Sense8, and for the film Matrix 4. He and his wife live in Ireland with their two children.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Claire on January 06, 2013

I'm not a big fan of autobiographies, but I am a big fan of David Mitchell; these facts seem to have averaged out into a 3 star rating. As I read, it was David Mitchell's voice telling me the anecdotes in my head. This was a really positive thing about the book; he didn't write with pretension, rathe......more

Goodreads review by Tan on June 03, 2022

Love this man. Loved reading his and Robert Webbs memoirs and realising just how much they really are Mark and Jez ❤......more

Goodreads review by Diane on January 11, 2013

I laughed out loud several times throughout my reading. David Mitchell is hilarious, whether in print or on my TV screen and I'm glad to have read his memoir. He's still pretty young so I imagine he'll write another one eventually. I thought the mushy chapter about falling in love and getting marrie......more

Goodreads review by Simon on November 22, 2012

As with all celebrity autobiographies, if you’re a fan of the celebrity, there’s a high probability that you’ll enjoy the book. If not, you’re unlikely to read it anyway. That’s a point that’s made often, but that probably bears repeating. The structure of this book is slightly novel, in that it foll......more

Goodreads review by Genevieve on January 23, 2016

I love David Mitchell. I love watching his stand up, I love watching him on quiz panels and I love watching him as a host. I loved Peep Show. But - to put it simply - I didn't LOVE this book. Maybe it's because I find him at his best when he's taking the mickey out of other people (e.g. Lee Mack). B......more

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‘One of the best celebrity memoirs of last year…his outsider geek personality translates just as well on the page as it does on TV.’ Metro ‘It livened up about half way through with the appearance of me. But enough of David's life. The book is wonderful from beginning to end.’ Robert Webb 'David Mitchell is an extremely funny man on screen, in person, in print and very probably underwater.' Sam Bain, co-writer of Peep Show ‘He can write’ Evening Standard ‘Fluent, discursive, intelligent.’ Evening Standard ‘If you like Mitchell on television, you will like him in this book.’ Shortlist

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