“Travelling is like emptying the crumbs out of a toaster. You think you’ve found them all until you give it another bang. And what I’ve discovered in life is that it’s always me who cleans the toaster”
Join the million-copy bestselling television star as he embarks on a journey to enlightenment
After going on a journey of discovery in The Moaning of Life, the enlightened one - otherwise known as Karl Pilkington - finds himself back on the road.
In his search for the answers to life’s big questions, Karl has therapy in Tokyo to try and reduce the size of his head, spends time in California with a man and his five wives, tries his hand at painting with his own vomit in New York, and travels to Berlin to have his future predicted by a blind man, via his bum cheeks.
Will his travels around the world bring him any closer to the meaning of life? Find out in his hilarious new book.
“The funniest man on the planet”
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“A hero for our times”
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“He’s a moron. A completely round, empty-headed, part-chimp Manc”
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Karl Pilkington is the bestselling author of seven books: The World of Karl Pilkington; Happyslapped by a Jellyfish; Karlology; An Idiot Abroad; The Further Adventures of An Idiot Abroad; The Moaning of Life and More Moaning. He was part of the Guinness World Record-breaking podcast The Ricky Gervais Show, which was downloaded over 300 million times and became an animation for HBO in the USA. He also starred in three series of Sky 1’s global hit An Idiot Abroad and two series of The Moaning of Life.
Karl Pilkington discusses the meaning of his moaning with Jonathan Wells
Jonathan Wells
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