John Cleese's "So, Anyway..." is a must-read for fans of his work and anyone looking for a funny and engaging memoir. Cleese's unique comedic voice shines through as he recounts his upbringing, early career as a teacher and path to becoming a successful writer and performer. Cleese's musings on the nature of comedy and other topics add depth to this entertaining read.

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• Specsavers National Book Award Nominee for Magic FM Autobiography/Biography of the Year (2014)

Candid and brilliantly funny, this is the story of how a tall, shy youth from Weston-super-Mare went on to become a self-confessed legend. En route, John Cleese describes his nerve-racking first public appearance, at St Peter’s Preparatory School at the age of eight and five-sixths; his endlessly peripatetic home life with parents who seemed incapable of staying in any house for longer than six months; his first experiences in the world of work as a teacher who knew nothing about the subjects he was expected to teach; his hamster-owning days at Cambridge; and his first encounter with the man who would be his writing partner for over two decades, Graham Chapman. And so on to his dizzying ascent via scriptwriting for Peter Sellers, David Frost, Marty Feldman and others to the heights of Monty Python. Punctuated from time to time with John Cleese’s thoughts on topics as diverse as the nature of comedy, the relative merits of cricket and waterskiing, and the importance of knowing the dates of all the kings and queens of England, this is a masterly performance by a former schoolmaster.

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