White Male Stand-Up by Alan Davies #literature his father’s sickness

his father’s sickness

Patrick returns home

from triumph and admiration to intrigue and hostility: in a way

This is both a love letter to life on Earth

Turtle isn't one of the heroes he reads about in stories

White Male Stand-Up by Alan Davies #literature his father’s sicknessOn the Waterstones Best Books of 2025 List Following Just Ignore Him, the bestselling memoir of his traumatic childhood, White Male Stand Up is what happened next to Alan Davies. It's the story of how he threw himself into the joyous and idealistic world of stand up comedy, leading to a television career, but how echoes from the past, and the thought that everyone might prefer it if he disappeared, saw him repeatedly dismantle everything around him.