Mr Wilman’s Motoring Adventure
Top Gear, Grand Tour and Twenty Years of Magic and Mayhem
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4.7 • 14 Ratings
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- £11.99
Publisher Description
Lift the bonnet on 20 years of magic and mayhem on Top Gear and The Grand Tour - from the mysterious man behind the camera . . .
The perfect gift for fans of fast cars, big laughs and full-throttle TV adventures!
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Top Gear turned gloomy Sunday nights into celebratory Friday nights.
It made household names of presenters Clarkson, Hammond and May, their unique chemistry and buddy movie antics proving irresistible to a vast global audience. With these three at the helm, Top Gear earned a place in the Guinness Book of Records as the most popular factual TV show on the planet.
Then, a short while later, it was all gone.
How did a thoroughly sensible little consumer advice programme on cars turn into a global phenomenon in the first place, though? How did it all go wrong? And how did they rise from the ashes as The Grand Tour, and go on to scale even greater heights?
One man has all the answers.
There from the beginning, Top Gear and The Grand Tour co-creator, and Jeremy’s oldest friend, Andy Wilman, opens the bonnet on over twenty years of motoring mayhem. In Mr Wilman’s Motoring Adventure, the mysterious man in the shadows tells the inside story of your favourite TV shows for the first time.
Irreverent, joyful and as laugh-out-loud funny as the shows themselves, it’s the best book about Top Gear and The Grand Tour . . . in the world.
Customer Reviews
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Very good!
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Brilliant!
Very enjoyable.
I am and always have been a “sort of” TG and GT fan, to be fair more so TG as that came first. And I was unsure whether I wanted to get this book as it was £11+ on my Apple device which was way over my normal spend! I am so pleased that I took the plunge because I’ve thoroughly enjoyed the book, the only problem now being that I have a considerable desire to watch all of the stuff I didn’t take the trouble to watch in the first place. And at 70+ yrs of age that leaves me with quite a task! Well done Mr Wilman, a great read and something that I shall be suggesting to others.