Dave Gorman's Googlewhack Adventure

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He speeds things up, slows things down, introduces high drama and low farce and keeps the narrative moving with his mix of goodhearted positivity and self-mockery. His documentary film, America Unchained, won the Audience Award for Best Documentary Feature at the Austin Film Festival. Tony Hawkes, an author I found when I was in London back in 2003, all his books where about stupid bar bets and where he traveled and what he did to complete them. In between the ups and downs of his relationship with the divine Pandora and worrying that his genius is going unrecognized, Adrian Mole chronicles the pains and pleasures of a misspent adolescence.I confess I'd read the book before this and loved his previous adventure meeting 54 namesakes after a drunken bet (hint for the BBC: time to release that one now please), but the tale of the Googlewhack adventure eclipses his former antics. No missing or damaged pages, no creases or tears, no underlining or highlighting of text, and no writing in the margins. Fuelled by a lust for life and a desire to do anything except what he's supposed to be doing (writing that novel and growing up), Dave falls under the spell of an obscure internet word game - Googlewhacking. Addicted to the game, and gripped by obsession, Dave travels three times round the world, visiting four continents and the unlikeliest cast of real life eccentrics you'll ever meet in what becomes an epic challenge, a life-changing, globe-trotting Googlewhack adventure.

When a Republican party wins the General Election, they strip the royal family of everything and send them to live on a housing estate in the Midlands. A rollicking, funny, sometimes disturbing, high-stakes personal journey with the pace of a thriller. Please also note that we are legally required to declare the correct value of your purchase which is used to calculate the tax and any tariff duty. Gorman is an accomplished comic – his last tour was more conventional, though still used PowerPoint – but there are few quotable lines to amuse your pub mates here. It's surprising how some of it has aged, with him struggling to get online without lessons in WiFi hotspots and cyber cafes, and not always expecting everyone (whether met in the story or reading it) to be Internet literate, but Dave Gorman's openness, eagerness for people and adventure are still minty fresh.Finance is provided by PayPal Credit (a trading name of PayPal UK Ltd, Whittaker House, Whittaker Avenue, Richmond-Upon-Thames, Surrey, United Kingdom, TW9 1EH). Since then, Tim FitzHigham has attempted to sail to France in a bath, Richard Herring has updated the 12 Labours of Hercules and "Gormanesque" has become journalistic shorthand for umpteen Edinburgh festival fringe gigs based on ludicrous follies utilising a pointer and a MacBook. He then toured Australia and England again and performed at the Canadian Just for Laughs festival in July 2004.

If you're about to run to google and google what exactly a "googlewhack" is, then this book is for you. He has an open manner and a way of making friends quickly that helps on stage as well as on his journeys. Jason Zinoman of The New York Times gives the show a positive review, lauding Gorman for making "an art form" out of "wasting time on the Internet". This isn't so much a stand-up show as it is a story told with humor and energy and although sometimes it doesn't quite work, it is mostly engaging, funny and entertaining.

He has numerous TV writing credits and was part of the double BAFTA-winning team behind The Mrs Merton Show . It quickly established itself as the channel's most successful original programme that year and a further sixteen episodes have been commissioned for broadcast in 2014 and 2015. His documentary film, America Unchained , won the Audience Award for Best Documentary Feature at the Austin Film Festival.