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Peter Ackroyd's biography of Charlie Chaplin. Fascinating.

Christopher Hibbert's biography of George IV. Absolutely brilliant: genuine LOLs at some of the antics - the great man puking up during fancy balls, him and his brother impersonating a mad George III behind his back when they're not shagging everything that moved, the lot. I can't remember a...

The bit about Davey the Dwarf genuinely scared the living daylights out of me. Great book, the man is a legend.

A book about the old coaching roads between London and Brighton. Fascinating stuff. Got to love City Books btw.

Gironimo by Tim Moore. Tim Moore could write about literally anything and I'd read it.

Girls Like Us by Sheila Weller - about the careers of Carole King, Joni Mitchell and Carly Simon. And and I'm steadily ploughing my way through Simon Schama's Embarrassment Of Riches and the History Of The World In 100 Objects by the British Museum chappy. One day I'd like to be reading only one...

Semi-Detached, by Griff Rhys Jones. It's really very boring and not at all funny - slightly sentimental but just entirely unremarkable - civil servants have been probably written funnier autobiogs. It makes you realise that most of the witty stuff that's come out of his mouth on telly over the...