I wrote a book today, oh boy
My new book, Fine , is out today. It's the third book I'm in this year, but my first novel. My first ever novel. In the unboxing video I made - yeah, I make unboxing videos, so kill me with rocks - I mentioned that Kenneth Williams was a year younger than I am now when he made his last Carry On film, the execrable Carry On Emannuelle. He didn't retire after that: he did An Audience With ...He did the Bloo Loo adverts and Willow the Wisp. He wrote Acid Drops, Back Drops (whose title I don't get) Just Williams (better), I Only Have to Close My Eyes, which appears to be a children's book. He did a recording of Monkey, Arthur Waley's translation of Journey to the West, which I fear might be a bit of its time. He'd played the Dauphin in St Joan, and was in Orson Welles' London production of Moby Dick - Rehearsed. He was a mainstay of Hancock's Half Hour and Round the Horne, two of the greatest comic concoctions of the mid 20th Century. They'