Ramble Book: Musings on Childhood, Friendship, Family and 80s Pop Culture

Adam Buxton's Ramble Book is a funny, sad, real, and rueful memoir about parenthood, boarding school trauma, arguing with partners, bad parties, confrontations on trains, friendship, wanting to fit in, growing up in the 80s, dead dads, teenage sexual anxiety, failed artistic endeavors, and being a David Bowie fan. It also explores the joys of going off topic and letting your mind wander.

Format: Hardback
Length: 368 pages
Publication date: 03 September 2020
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers

A RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK


‘An affectionate and revealing account … Funny, sad, real, rueful. The Times


‘Warm, rambling and self-aware Guardian


The long-awaited, rambling, tender, and very funny memoir from Adam Buxton


Ramble


/ˈramb(ə)l/
Verb


1. Walk for pleasure in the countryside.


‘Dr Buckles and Rosie the dog love rambling in the countryside.


2. Talk or write at length in a confused or inconsequential way.


‘Adam rambles on about lots of consequential, compelling and personal matters in his tender, insightful, hilarious and totally unconfused memoir, Ramble Book.


Ramble Book


is about parenthood, boarding school trauma, arguing with your partner, bad parties, confrontations on trains, friendship, wanting to fit in, growing up in the 80s, dead dads, teenage sexual anxiety, failed artistic endeavours, being a David Bowie fan; and how everything you read, watch and listen to as a child forms a part of the adult you become.


Its also a book about the joys of going off topic and letting your mind wander. And its about a short, hairy, frequently confused man called Adam Buxton.

Weight: 662g
Dimension: 162 x 230 x 40 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9780008293345