Going to Sea in a Sieve

8 best books like Going to Sea in a Sieve (Danny Baker): Adolf Hitler: My Part in His Downfall, Cider With Roadies, Margrave of the Marshes, Bedsit Disco Queen: How I Grew Up and Tried to Be a Pop Star, James Acaster's Classic Scrapes, Gotta Get Theroux This: My Life and Strange Times on Television, Listening to the Animals: Becoming the Supervet, How I Escaped My Certain Fate

Adolf Hitler: My Part in His Downfall

Author	Spike Milligan
ISBN	0140035206

Adolf Hitler: My Part on His Downfall is volume One of Spike Milligan's outrageous, hilarious, legendary War Memoirs.

'At Victoria station the R.T.O. gave me a travel warrant, a white feather and a picture of Hitler marked "This is your enemy". I searched every compartment, but he wasn't on...

Cider With Roadies

Author	Stuart Maconie
ISBN	0091897459

Cider with Roadies is the story of a boy's obsessive relationship with pop. A life lived through music from Stuart's audience with the Beatles (aged 3); his confessions as a pubescent prog rocker; a youthful gymnastic dalliance with northern soul; the radical effects of punk on his politics, homework...

Margrave of the Marshes

Author	John Peel
ISBN	0552551198

Through nigh-on forty years of laconic brilliance on Radio 1, a musical taste which defined a culture and his widely popular Radio 4 show, Home Truths, John Peel reached out to an audience that was as diverse as his record collection. He was a genuinely great Briton, beloved by millions. John's unique...

Bedsit Disco Queen: How I Grew Up and Tried to Be a Pop Star

Author	Tracey Thorn
ISBN	1844088669

A frank and funny pop culture memoir in the vein of Caitlin Moran's How to be a Woman, this is "how to be a woman artist"
 This is the story of Tracey Thorn, one half of the internationally successful group Everything But the Girl, collaborator with such artists as Paul Weller, Massive Attack,...

James Acaster's Classic Scrapes

Author	James Acaster
ISBN	1472247183

James Acaster has been nominated for the Edinburgh Comedy Award five times and has appeared on prime-time TV shows like MOCK THE WEEK, LIVE AT THE APOLLO and RUSSELL HOWARD'S STAND UP CENTRAL.

But behind the fame and critical acclaim is a man perpetually getting into trouble. Whether it's disappointing...

Gotta Get Theroux This: My Life and Strange Times on Television

Author	Louis Theroux
ISBN	1509880364

In 1994 fledgling journalist Louis Theroux was given a one-off gig on Michael Moore's TV Nation, presenting a segment on apocalyptic religious sects. Gawky, socially awkward and totally unqualified, his first reaction to this exciting opportunity was panic. But he'd always been drawn to off-beat...

Listening to the Animals: Becoming the Supervet

Author

Noel Fitzpatrick

THE NO.1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER. A powerful, heart-warming and inspiring memoir from the UK's most famous and beloved vet, Professor Noel Fitzpatrick - star of the Channel 4 series The Supervet. Growing up on the family farm in Ballyfin, Ireland, Noel's childhood was spent tending to the cattle...

How I Escaped My Certain Fate

Author	Stewart Lee
ISBN	0571254802

The Goodreads Censorship Fiasco of 2013 has got a lot of people considering works by Adolph Hitler, convicted sex offenders, and flagrant P2P artists. I have found myself repeatedly thinking of a particular routine from 90s stand-up comedian Stewart Lee.

If you don't know Lee, his style...