It’s Not What You Think and Memoirs of a Fruitcake 2-in-1 Collection

Chris Evans is one of the country’s most successful broadcasters and producers. For the first time, readers can follow Chris’s journey in this single volume – from a young paperboy living in a council estate in It’s Not What You Think to battling his demons whilst hosting his radio show in the Sunday Times bestseller Memoirs of a Fruitcake.

It’s Not What You Think tells the story of how one council estate lad made good, really very good, and survived – just about – to tell the tale. In this witty and energetically written autobiography, Chris describes the experiences that shaped the boy and created the man who would go on to carve out such a dazzlingly brilliant career. From a paperboy born in a dreary council estate to becoming a massive media mogul , It’s Not What You Think gives readers the real story beyond the glare of the media spotlight.

It looked like Chris had made it after the events in It’s Not What You Think. But things were about to take a very dark turn, as Memoirs of a Fruitcake describes. Soon Chris’s childhood dreams of a job in radio lay in tatters, and as an endless drink-fuelled lifestyle began to take its toll, he plunged into a downward spiral so deep that escape seemed almost impossible.

And then his salvation appeared, in the form of a young singer called Billie Piper. Named the Sunday Times Celebrity Book of the Year 2010, Memoirs of a Fruitcake is told with the same wit, verve and startling honesty that surprised and delighted readers of It’s Not What You Think.

Reviews

Praise for It’s Not What You Think:

‘An eye-opening read’
OK Magazine

‘It is as an autobiographer that Chris Evans finally seems to have grown up’
The Observer

‘Full to the brim with fantastic anecdotes’
Heat

‘A critic confounding mea culpa of a memoir’
The Guardian

‘The guy can spin a yarn as long as long as the M1 and as colourful as his hair’
Now Magazine

About the author

Chris Evans began his broadcasting career at Manchester’s Piccadilly Radio, going on to become a household name in TV and radio. He launched and presented the hugely successful Channel 4 shows The Big Breakfast, Don’t Forget Your Toothbrush and TFI Friday, before moving to radio in 1996. Chris joined BBC Radio 2 in 2005 and soon succeeded Sir Terry Wogan as host of the Breakfast Show. Before long he had exceeded Wogan’s listening figures, and the nation had begun to accept the reformed wild child back into its heart.
Chris’s second book, Memoirs of a Fruitcake, became a Sunday Times bestseller and was named Sunday Times Book of the Year in 2011. Encouraged by this success he now pens a hugely popular weekly column in the Daily Mail, as well as running 500 Words, a short story competition for children.

Chris’s wild days are now firmly behind him, and he lives with his wife Natasha and sons Noah and Eli in the Berkshire countryside.