The Fry Chronicles

Stephen Fry's second volume of autobiography picks up where Moab Is My Washpot left off and covers his life up to his 30th birthday in August 1987. Without a strict chronology, it concentrates on about seven years: Cambridge, his success as a performer and writer, first meetings with Hugh Laurie, Emma Thompson and Rowan Atkinson, and fame on Saturday Live and Blackadder. His version of Me and My Girl, made with Mike Ockrent, becomes a worldwide hit and earns him a modest fortune before he turns thirty. Chapters are organized under headings that all begin with the letter C. It was the first title released at once in print, as two kinds of ebook, an audiobook and an iOS app.

Paul Graham, reading it, called it as perfect as Wodehouse.