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Stephen Fry

(b.1957)

aka Mrs. Stephen Fry

As well as being the bestselling author of three novels, Making History, The Hippopotamus, and The Liar, and the first volume of his autobiography, Moab is My Washpot, Fry has played Peter in Peter's Friends, Oscar Wilde in the film Wilde, Jeeves in the television series Jeeves and Wooster and (a closely guarded show-business secret, this) Laurie in the television series Fry and Laurie.

Genres: Literary Fiction, Fantasy, Science Fiction

Series

Mythos
   1. Mythos (2017)
   2. Heroes (2018)
   3. Troy (2020)

Novels

   The Liar (1991)
   The Hippopotamus (1994)
   Making History (1996)
   The Stars' Tennis Balls (2000)
     aka Revenge

Non fiction series

Fry and Laurie (with Hugh Laurie)
   1. A Bit of Fry and Laurie (1990)
   2. A Bit More Fry and Laurie (1991)
   3. Three Bits of Fry and Laurie (1992)
   4. Fry and Laurie Bit No. 4 (1995)

Non fiction

   Paperweight (1992)
   Moab Is My Washpot (1997)
   Rescuing the Spectacled Bear (2002)
   Stephen Fry's Incomplete and Utter History of Classical Music (2004) (with Tim Lihoreau)
   The Ode Less Travelled (2005)
   QI: Advanced Banter (2008) (with John Lloyd)
   Stephen Fry in America (2008)
   Fry's English Delight (2009)
   Saturday Night Fry (2009)
   The Fry Chronicles (2010)
   Mrs Fry's Diary (2010) (as by Mrs. Stephen Fry)
   Stephen Fry Does the Knowledge (2011)
   Walking & Talking (2011)
   How to Have an Almost Perfect Marriage (2012) (as by Mrs. Stephen Fry)
   More Fool Me (2014)
   Political Correctness Gone Mad? (2018) (with Michael Eric Dyson, Michelle Goldberg and Jordan B Peterson)
   Fry's Ties (2021)

Stephen Fry recommends

A Bear Called Paddington (1958)
(Paddington Bear)
Michael Bond
"I've always had great respect for Paddington... He is a British institution."

Galahad at Blandings (1964)
(Blandings)
P G Wodehouse
"What can one say about Wodehouse? He exhausts superlatives."

Rommel? Gunner Who? (1974)
(War (and Peace) Memoirs)
Spike Milligan
"That absolutely glorious way of looking at things differently. A great man."

The Sherlock Effect (1997)
Raymond Kay Lyon
"It is a tremendous read."

Perfect Tense (2001)
Michael Bracewell
"A unique and priceless pearl of a book."

Father Frank (2001)
Paul Burke
"A dazzling first novel - funny, thoughtful and original."

Montmorency (2003)
(Montmorency, book 1)
Eleanor Updale
"One of the most original, witty and delicious books to have arrived for a very long time."

Bullet Points (2004)
Mark Watson
"Woody Allen and William Boyd have had a bastard love-child and his name is Mark Watson."

The Neil Gaiman Reader: Selected Fiction (2006)
Neil Gaiman and Darrell Schweitzer
"Gaimen is a god in the universe of story."

Red to Black (2008)
(Finn , book 1)
Alex Dryden
"Brilliant and unforgettable."

All in the Mind (2008)
Alastair Campbell
"Campbell's insights into power and politics are delivered with a trademark assured elegance, but it is the devastating penetration of the human mind that takes this novel out of the ordinary. I have rarely read a book where the agonies and insecurities of mental trauma have been so well chronicled."

The Man Who Wouldn't Stand Up (2012)
Jacob M Appel
"A darkly comic satire, full of insight into American culture."

The Folded Man (2013)
M T Hill
"Captures the shell and essence of Britain."

Watch Me (2014)
(Jefferson Winter, book 2)
James Carol
"A brilliant, conflicted profiler."

A Boy Called Christmas (2015)
(Boy Called Christmas, book 1)
Matt Haig
"The most evergreen, immortal Christmas story to be published for decades."

A Murder to Die For (2018)
Stevyn Colgan
"Divine black village comedy."

Take Nothing With You (2018)
Patrick Gale
"Absolutely one of his complete best. So many funny and tender and terrific scenes. He hovers between social comedy and apocalyptic tragedy without the move appearing artificial or contrived. Just a wonderful, wonderful read."

The Silent Patient (2019)
Alex Michaelides
"Absolutely brilliant . . . I read it in a state of intense, breathless excitement and never saw the ending coming. Not for a second!"

The Last Day (2020)
Andrew Hunter Murray
"I read this hungrily ... Its intelligence and bravura characterisation will have you turning page after page. A fabulous achievement."

Villager (2022)
Tom Cox
"One of the most reliably enchanting (not to mention often hilarious) writers around."

The Young Pretender (2022)
Michael Arditti
"An engrossing, entralling and utterly captivating read."

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