White Male Stand-Up by Alan Davies #literature Patrick returns home

Patrick returns home

his father’s sickness

from triumph and admiration to intrigue and hostility: in a way

The resulting book is a delightfully engaging experience

Turtle isn't one of the heroes he reads about in stories

White Male Stand-Up by Alan Davies #literature Patrick returns homeOn the Waterstones Best Books of 2025 List 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 story of how he threw himself into the joyous and idealistic world of stand up comedy, leading to a television career, but how echoes from the past, and the thought that everyone might prefer it if he disappeared, saw him repeatedly dismantle everything around him.