Fry Chronicles

panning 1979-1987, The Fry Chronicles charts Stephens arrival at Cambridge up to his thirtieth birthday. Heartbreaking, a delight, a lovely, comfy book The TimesPerfect prose and excruciating honesty. A grand reminiscence of college and theatre and comedyland in the 1980s, with tone-perfect anecdotes and genuine readerly excitement.

What Fry does, essentially, is tell us who he really is. Above all else, a thoughtful book. And namedroppy too, and funny, and marbled with melancholy ObserverArguably the greatest living Englishman Independent on SundayExtremely enjoyable Sunday TimesFrys linguistic facility remains one of the Wildean wonders of the new media age. The patron saint of British intelligence Daily Telegraph