Three Men in a Boat

'I fell out of bed laughing at Three Men in a Boat' Guardian

Wonderfully fresh and funny, and among examples of Victorian humour I would place it high in the pantheon, right up there with The Importance of Being Earnest and The Diary of a Nobody...Jerome's writing...triumphantly stands the test of time, with its comic flights of exaggeration, its occasional archness, and its entirely innocent hint of the camp

A charming comedy of friendship and human nature

One of the funniest books I've ever read. I laughed out loud and that doesn't happen often

Brought laughter to a country in the throes of Victorian gloom

As well as being very funny, it captures the innocence of a time before adventure became synonymous with bungee jumping into ravines in faraway places

Reading it is like spending time with a favourite uncle whose anecdotes you'd happily listen to over and over again because...it makes you laugh

Having made it to number two in Esquire's funniest books list, Jerome K Jerome's comic tale of boat-bound idlers is reissued this month, with 30 charming illustrations by a certain Vic Reeves

A lovely jacketed hardback... Reeves captures absolutely Jerome's droll, gentle and thoroughly English sense of the absurd... perfect alfresco spring reading.

Go on a journey without leaving your chair.

One of the 'classics' of English humorous literature

Jerome Klapka Jerome was born in Walsall on 2 May 1859 and brought up in East London. After his father died, Jerome left school at fourteen and worked as a railway clerk, actor, journalist and teacher. In 1885 he published On the Stage - and Off which was followed in 1886 by Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow. In 1888 Jerome married Georgina Stanley and a year later he published his most famous work, Three Men in a Boat. The sequel, Three Men on the Bummel, appeared in 1900. Jerome also wrote several other novels, plays, stories and autobiographical writings, edited The Idler and Today magazines and, during the First World War, worked for the French ambulance service. Jerome K. Jerome died on 14 June 1927.

'I fell out of bed laughing at Three Men in a Boat' Guardian 
 
 What could be more relaxing than a refreshing holiday on the river with your two best friends and faithful canine companion, Montmorency? However, as J. discovers, there is more to life on the waves than meets the eye - including navigational challenges, culinary disasters, and heroic battles with swans, kettles and tins of pineapple. Jerome K. Jerome's delightful novel has kept readers smiling for years and his prose has found a perfect partner in Vic Reeves's glorious and witty illustrations.

Vic Reeves

Unusual among celebrity memoirs is that Reeves describes a childhood that was all but perfect

One of the great pleasures of this book is his description of life in the hairy Seventies; of discovering David Bowie, Grand Funk Railroad, prog rock and Yes.

This is both a touching and fascinating memoir... a great read told in the comedian's wickedly witty humour

Unlike the current glut of misery memoirs, his book... is a funny, positive read.

Vic Reeves' vivid, enchanting, and utterly hilarious childhood memoir is a comic masterpiece. 
 
Before there was Vic Reeves, there was a boy called James Moir who was much the same as any other lad.Obsessed with owning a pet crow, a master at writing his name and terrified of his father's immense moustache. Growing up in Yorkshire and then CountyDurham, the boy who would be Reeves somehow managed to escape the attentions of 'Randy Mandy' and get a crash course in pig castration, before having encounters with Jimi Hendrix and the Yorkshire Ripper. 
 
Peopled with weird and wonderful characters, Vic Reeves' memoir is authentic, witty and inventive, and as unique as you'd expect from one of Britain's most exceptional comedy talents.

Vic Reeves

Praise for Me Moir - Volume One

Unusual among celebrity memoirs is that Reeves describes a childhood that was all but perfect

One of the great pleasures of this book is his description of life in the hairy Seventies; of discovering David Bowie, Grand Funk Railroad, prog rock and Yes.

This is both a touching and fascinating memoir... a great read told in the comedian's wickedly witty humour

Unusual among celebrity memoirs is that Reeves describes a childhood that was all but perfect

One of the great pleasures of this book is his description of life in the hairy Seventies; of discovering David Bowie, Grand Funk Railroad, prog rock and Yes.

This is both a touching and fascinating memoir... a great read told in the comedian's wickedly witty humour

Unusual among celebrity memoirs is that Reeves describes a childhood that was all but perfect

One of the great pleasures of this book is his description of life in the hairy Seventies; of discovering David Bowie, Grand Funk Railroad, prog rock and Yes.

This is both a touching and fascinating memoir... a great read told in the comedian's wickedly witty humour

Books by Vic Reeves

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