'Just Ignore Him' by Alan Davies
When celebrity biographies get released, it's usually to great fanfares and fireworks as each flashy hardback vies for our attention in the pre-Christmas glut. My latest read - 'Just Ignore Him' by Alan Davies - got my attention because it seemed to do the opposite of that. Just look at the cover; a simple image of a young Davies in white t-shirt looking straight into the camera. Somehow cautiously bold, it's a long way from the usual stage-managed images we've come to expect on such books. The only flash of colour is the red of his football shorts, leaving the book dominated by a brown-black that sits in stark contrast to the bright yellows, blues and whites of other biographies that I've read. So what's going on?
