White Male Stand-UpOn the Waterstones Best Books of 2025 List 'Davies has done it again, damn him. Irritatingly good. Maddeningly funny. Annoyingly fine.' STEPHEN FRY 'Emotional, entertaining and startlingly honest. I was totally engrossed.' AMY LIPTROT, author of The Outrun. 'Really honest and really funny' Lorraine Kelly 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

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