Just Ignore Him: A BBC Two Between the Covers book club pick

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This book is both an account of Davies’ day-to-day life — as he tries to get by, adapt, fit in and find friendship and love where he can — and a study of how abusers manipulate their victims. While I cope well, I think, with what happened to me as a child it will always be with me and that is sad in so many ways, but it is what it is I guess. Please Note: By their very nature, all signed books will have been handled several times before they get to you.

Support is available for those who may be distressed by phoning Lifeline 13 11 14; Mensline 1300 789 978; Kids Helpline 1800 551 800; beyondblue 1300 224 636. He says he has always enjoyed his work and he thought that being famous would be fun "although that turned out to be a very mixed bag, as you can imagine . Remembering things from my childhood too like Bob a Job and collecting green stamps so you will enjoy his many recollections of adolescence. I wanted this to be a record to last a long time and to last long enough so that when my children are old enough to read it, they will understand.Here, there are often exquisitely tender recollections of the mother he lost at six years old, of a bereaved family struggling to find its way, and the kicks and confusion of adolescence.

Alan Davies - Jonathan Creek, the curly-haired good-natured fall guy of QI - the comedian - with excellent Aussie-accent - Oh, Alan. I always knew that the dumb bewildered puppy persona that Alan so brilliantly projects was a mask for an acute, sensitive, powerfully intelligent and insightful mind, but nothing prepared me for such a tour de force of writing, for what is destined to become an instant classic. In five decades of interviewing, I have rarely come across an interviewee who does not go through at least the motions of discussing the film or book or art show they are involved in which is the reason the interview has been granted. I think it's an important book though and I hope that it makes a difference, not only to Alan but to other people who may have gone through the same thing.Even at this remove, and having written the book about it, there was something so raw and naked about his response. Subsequent drama roles include Superintendent Mallard in Agatha Christie's Marple (ITV, 2008), as well as appearances in The Good Housekeeping Guide (BBC One, 2006), Roman Road (ITV 2004) and Hotel Babylon (BBC One, 2008). The ultimate Valentine's Day countdown - here are 10 romantic gestures to help sweep your partner off their feet!

Although the edges of this tradition have been worn down over the centuries, its residue is still visible in presumptions of male dominance, inhibitions against state interference in domestic life, the widespread exemption of parents from charges of assault against each other and their children, and in the oft quoted ‘sanctity’ of the nuclear family unit among conservative politicians.Lacking friends at school, he tried to impress by being loud and obnoxious, and to fill his emotional void with petty theft. Well, this may have been Davies' intention, but you cannot read Just Ignore Him (what his father urged Alan's siblings to do when he ‘acted up') without feeling anger yourself. At its core, which permeates almost every page, is the greatest betrayal – after his mother died of leukaemia, when she was 38 and he was six-and-a-half, his father sexually abused him from the age of eight to 13. What happened to me as a boy and my relationship with my father and the disintegrated family that I grew up in is problematic [Davies and his older brother remain estranged].