Monday, October 27, 2014

Graham Norton - The Life and Loves of a He Devil


Graham Norton
Published by Hachette New Zealand 23 October 2014, $39.99 RRP

 Graham Norton has been entertaining audiences and having fun with some of the world's biggest stars for nearly twenty years. He is loved across the nation for his delight in the peculiar and for his ability to find humour and a common ground in all that life brings. 

The Life and Loves of a He Devil shows, it's really the things you love that make you who you are and so Graham tells his story from his Irish childhood to the present day, describing just what and who he loved - and sometimes lost - as a young boy, and his new loves and obsessions - big and small - as he's grown older.

It's been ten years since his last book and being a decade older Graham has come to realise that what makes a life interesting is less what happens to you and more what inspires and drives you, what you love.

From Dolly Parton and dogs to wine and Ireland, Graham tells of his life and loves with characteristic humour and outrageous candour.

‘Who else could get Cher and Dawn French to sing karaoke to Believe, Benedict Cumberbatch to hug his fans, or Helen Mirren to snog an American actor?’ — The Telegraph


ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Graham Norton is one of the UK's most treasured comedians and presenters. 
Born in Clondalkin, a suburb of Dublin, Norton's first big TV appearance was as Father Noel Furlong on Father Ted in the early 1990s. He then secured a prime time slot on UK television with his chat shows So Graham Norton and V Graham Norton. Known for his quick wit and flamboyant style Graham began hosting a variety of talent shows on BBC1 from Strictly Dance Fever and Andrew Lloyd Webber's How Do You Solve A Problem Like Maria? to The Eurovision Song Contest and the BAFTAs. Graham was soon approached by the BBC to front his own self-titled chat show The Graham Norton Show in 2007

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