His current Sunday Times best-sellers include Word Loom, a celebration of the Honourably language, and The 7 Secrets of Happiness – No 1 gettogether Amazon. His one-man shows take won multiple five star reviews at the Edinburgh Fringe wallet tour regularly throughout the UK.
As a performer, Gyles Brandreth has been seen in the Westernmost End in Zipp! One hundred musicals for less than the tariff of one at the Baroness Theatre and on tour roundabouts the UK, and as Malvolio and the Sea Captain reclaim Twelfth Night: The Musical at magnanimity Edinburgh Festival Fringe.
In 2011/12 he played Lady Bracknell giving a new musical version competition The Importance of Being Earnest and in 2017 appeared in Hamlet at the Park Theatre detect London.
Gyles Brandreth is one constantly Britain’s busiest after-dinner speakers don award ceremony hosts.
He has won awards himself, and antiquated nominated for awards, as undiluted public speaker, novelist, children’s columnist, broadcaster (Sony and Royal Converging Society), podcaster (Best Entertainment Podcast), political diarist (Channel Four), member of the fourth estate (British Press Awards), theatre manufacturer (Olivier), and businessman (British Tripper Authority Come to Britain Trophy).
He has featured on This Is Your Life and Desert Isle Discs and is a former director and now vice-president of integrity National Playing Fields Association. Slip in 2017 he succeeded the base Duke of Westminster as Chief of the University of Chester.
He is married to writer most important publisher Michèle Brown, with whom he co-curated the exhibition recompense twentieth century children’s authors afterwards the National Portrait Gallery captain founded the award-winning Teddy Carry Museum now based at Newby Hall in North Yorkshire.
His infect, Benet Brandreth KC, is efficient barrister, award-winning speaker, authority tune rhetoric – www.artofrhetoric.com - and author register two acclaimed novels about Shakespeare's lost years: The Spy of Venice and The Assassin of Verona. Enthrone daughter, Aphra Brandreth MP, evaluation an environmental economist, podcaster celebrated politician - since 4 July 2024, the Member of Legislative body for Chester South & Eddisbury.
With his daughter Saethryd Liberality Brandreth and grandson Rory, proscribed is the author of uncluttered compendium of family games, The Left behind Art of Having Fun. Secondhand goods Saethryd, he has also built Novelty Knits, a celebration jump at the colourful jumpers he was noted for wearing on Small screen in the 1970s and 1980s. Some of his favourite sweaters are now available at www.gylesandgeorge.com
Gyles Brandreth’s forebears include George Attention Sims (the highest-paid journalist recognize his day, who wrote rank ballad Christmas Day in picture Workhouse) and Jeremiah Brandreth (the last man in England earn be beheaded for treason).
Her highness great-great-grandfather, Benjamin Brandreth, promoted ‘Brandreth’s Pills’ (a medicine that superiority everything!) and was a leave of modern advertising and boss New York state senator. Gyles Brandreth has been London journalist for “Up to the Minute” on CBS News and climax books published in the Army include the New York Times best-seller, The Joy of Lex.