East of Croydon

Critics Review

• Alongside laugh-out-loud travel stories, the book also provides a moving account of her coming to terms with her father’s death

  Daily Mirror

• Vivid, laugh-out-loud, moving

  Sunday Express

• Alongside a wealth of vivid and hilarious travel stories, Sue also writes movingly about coming to terms with the recent death of her father as she stands beside the Ganges

  Daily Express

• The former Bake Off presenter journeys far out of her comfort zone on travels from India to Indonesia, sharing entertaining travel stories and a moving account of grieving for her father

  Pick of the holiday reads, Daily Mirror

• An unvarnished, endearing and very funny account
  

  Woman & Home

• Part memoir, part travel guide. A fab account full of wit and emotion

  Prima

• Her misadventures deliver laughs aplenty, but she’s also engaged with the places, politics and crucially, the people. Enjoyable, interesting and often moving

  Book of the month, Wanderlust

• Praise for Spectacles:

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• Drama, tears and laughs – Spectacles has got it all. A brilliant, touching memoir suffused with love, it reminds you that life is best lived at wonky angles. I ADORED it

  The Miniaturist

• Very funny . . . It seems there are two Sue Perkins: the TV one, who gabbles and pratfalls, and the sensitive one who aches. The first of course, exists to protect the second. They can both write. The first writes comedy, the second tragedy; in this sense, reading her memoir is very like meeting her

  Sunday Times

• It’s a proper book . . . so well written. Tight & bright & full of inspiration

  Radio 2

• Utterly wonderful. It’s very, very funny and poignant and it’s very Sue Perkins and that’s the bliss of it

  Love, Nina and Man at the Helm

• Relentlessly cheering, Spectacles is as charming and funny as Perkins herself. Like going for a long, slightly drunken lunch with your naughtiest friend

  Red Magazine

• Brilliantly written . . . fearlessly honest and full of heart, it will also make you laugh like a gibbon

  Heat *****

• I absolutely loved it . . . whip smart and very funny

  Woman & Home

• Life, love and loss – it’s all here … Warm, crisp and beautifully layered – like its author, Spectacles is a complete delight

  Independent on Sunday

• [A] deftly written and belly-laugh funny autobiography . . . Though she never suggests she might be remotely brainy, she clearly is. Her vocabulary makes Will Self’s seem lacking, her writing is full of discreetly clever allusions . . . If she wants her readers to like her, she certainly achieved it with this reviewer who laughed and cried and secretly wants her as a best friend

  Daily Express

• Sue’s memoir will leave you feeling like you’ve made a new best friend. Introducing us to a cast of friends, family and love interests, and not forgetting a psychopathic nun, Sue picks apart life in a refreshingly honest, warm and downright hilarious way… Spectacles firmly cements her as an exciting writer of the future

  OK Magazine

• This smart and funny story is far from the photo-heavy, ghost-written volumes that it will compete with . . . Perkins is such a good writer . . . incapable of writing a boring sentence

  Sunday Express