Andrew Vincent is a former BBC journalist and university lecturer. He has, at various points, set fire to every house he’s lived in and been disciplined in every job he’s held. He should probably not be left unsupervised. The British Army once accidentally left him in charge of a loaded tank. (He wasn’t even in the army).
In 1997, he was convicted of “offending the peace and dignity of Wyoming” having been in the state for less than ten minutes.
An only child of an only child of an only child, and with no children of his own, Andrew is (somehow) the product of generations of low motility.
A brain injury survivor, he now volunteers with a charity supporting head trauma patients.
He is the author of Travel USA (2002), Mum and Dad (2023), and Come the Fall (2025).
Andrew Vincent is a former BBC journalist and university lecturer. He has, at various points, set fire to every house he’s lived in and been disciplined in every job he’s held. He should probably not be left unsupervised. The British Army once accidentally left him in charge of a loaded tank. (He wasn’t even in the army).
In 1997, he was convicted of “offending the peace and dignity of Wyoming” having been in the state for less than ten...
Praise
Personally I gravitate to books that gets to the heart of the complexity of human relationships and this is exactly what this book does. It is riveting and takes the reader on an insightful and at times uncomfortable emotional rollercoaster. I laughed, I cried and I cringed.
The author has a huge talent for storytelling and I loved the cast of dysfunctional background characters. Especially Baroness Rosina von Kuhne and her morning school for little ones .
This book would really make a great film!
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Liggy Webb
This is an excellent read. I don’t usually enjoy autobiographies, but I found this one entertaining, moving, and unexpectedly educational, particularly in its references to the experiences of the author’s ancestors in the World Wars. Andrew Vincent is a skilled writer who truly knows how to tell a story—no pretentiousness, no clichés, just an absorbing and fascinating true tale of a man who, after his father’s death, discovered far more than he had bargained for, forcing him to rethink many things he once believed about his life.
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BassBabe
I read this book because it came up on my socials at a time I was embarking on a journey of tracing my ancestry. I found the language unpretentious yet poetic. It also reminded me that we are all future ancestors… pixels in someone else's picture. I would have preferred a less downbeat ending but the sentiment of acceptance is very touching.
On Monday I found a message on Kindle Direct Publishing from the….hang on, let me get my reading glasses….Global Guild of AI Authors, or the GGAA. It/they/he or she did use rather pompous pseudo-legalistic language;
“This letter is a formal demand from the GLOBAL GUILD OF AI AUTHORS (GGAA) to Amazon Kindle Direct Publishing (KDP) to immediately cease discriminatory practices, technological gatekeeping, and targeted bias against independent authors who use AI tools in the creative process.”
‘Grown-up’ is a physical state; adulthood is more nebulous, not a finite process, more a never-ending work in progress. I am grown up, but not an adult. Imposter Syndrome implies you are doing a good job of convincing people you know what you’re doing. If people can see through you, you are not a very good imposter. Most of us are making it up as we go along, although we try to retrofit a ‘grand plan’ – a blueprint that shows where we are is where we wanted to be.
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