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Yardsticks For Failure by Ivo Graham - Signed Edition
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X9781035411305
Published:
22 May 2025
Format:
Hardback
Author:
Hand Signed by Ivo Graham to a Signature Page
Hardback 1st Edition
Yardsticks For Failure by Ivo Graham - Signed Edition
Hand Signed by Ivo Graham to a Signature Page
Hardback 1st Edition
New & Unread - Published May 2025
Yardsticks For Failure is the story of the most frantic two years of Ivo Graham’s already quite frantic life, 2022-2024, two years of tasks and tears and everything in between.
The amount of stuff Ivo packs into these two years will excite you and exhaust you, enthral you and appal you, and many more carefully choreographed pairs of verbs if you’d like this sentence to be even longer. There are some short sentences in this book, such as this one. And this one. But there are some long old sentences too, sentences that take you on whole thrilling adventures all by themselves, sentences that are rich in music and memory, mischief and mourning, sentences that bring you right alongside Ivo in his train-chasing, gamefacing,
name-dropping, heart-stopping chaos of an existence. No one lives like Ivo does, and no one writes like him either. There are failures in his life but this book is not one of them. Come on in.
About the Author: Despite extensive grooming for more serious careers at Eton and Oxford, Ivo Graham has spent his entire adult life on the stand-up circuit, winning So You Think You're Funny? at aged 18 in 2009 and since establishing himself as, if not the UK's poshest, then certainly its most apologetically posh comedian. His 2019 show The Game of Life, received nominations for Best Show and Best Joke at the Edinburgh Fringe. He's appeared on TV comedies including Have I Got News for You, QI, The Last Leg, Mock the Week, and Live at the Apollo, quizzed with varying degrees of success on Pointless, House of Games and University Challenge, and toured the country with Fern Brady and Darren Harriott for Dave's six-part travelogue British as Folk. He's earned his parents' respect with appearances on Radio 4's The Now Show, The News Quiz, Just a Minute, and the drama Unite, and shoehorned Swindon Town references into many an episode of 5 Live's Fighting Talk and BT Sport's The Football's On.
2023 saw Ivo appear as a contestant on the fifteenth series of Channel 4's Taskmaster, and fans of his chaotic energy on that show can see it live, first on the concluding leg of his My Future, My Clutter tour, before August sees Ivo travel to Edinburgh and then nationwide with his new show, Organised Fun.
Format: Hardback Edition
ISBN: 9781035411306
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