Soft Lad: Coming-of-age Stories

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It was always Heartbeat that made me feel down that it was the end of the weekend and I still get that feeling today sometimes, although Heartbeat is long gone sadly.

Daily Mail reporters have sneered at Grimshaw’s “knack for befriending the famous”, saying his only skill is as a “world-class networker”. These are Grimmy's stories of things gone right and wrong across his life and career so far, with all the highs and lows and everything in-between. These are Grimmy's brilliant, nostalgic coming-of-age tales, covering life's pivotal moments, the loves, the losses, and the fun had with the family and friends that made him. It's not a spicy tell-all on the perils of being mildly famous and the thrill of talking absolute breeze on the radio for 14 years. Soft Lad is a collection of stories about me: stories on life, loves, death, fears, obsessions, nights out, growing up and making dreams come true.Come down the travelators, exit Sainsbury's, turn right and follow the pedestrianised walkway to Crown Walk and turn right - and Coles will be right in front of you.

You know the feeling when you watch The One Show, and pop out to walk the dogs and you see in other houses, they’re watching The One Show, too? I particularly liked the beginning when he was discussing his procrastination at starting the book, it's a standard autobiography but it isn't chronological, the timeline jumps around covering various points that Nick wishes to discuss such as his experience on Sport Relief, his realisation that he is gay and anecdotes from his radio career. Cut to Grimshaw having a fit, going into toxic shock from heat exhaustion after cycling for eight hours in “oven-like” temperatures. Soft Lad isn't chronological like a traditional memoir, starting at birth and ending with death - I'm still (at the point of writing) very much alive.He also describes the feeling when listening figures dropped: “My Terrible Personality Is Ruining Great Britain,” and his gorgeous relationship with his family, and their nonsense, and their support, and their skill at having a laugh. The humour , the accuracy of details from past years, the coming of age and professional growth , is all there. Right now I've just got my exams back making me a senior journalist so the world is my oyster and who knows what's I've got ahead of me. I continue to be so impressed at the way Nick not only recounts, but remembers the details of his life. The _ga cookie, installed by Google Analytics, calculates visitor, session and campaign data and also keeps track of site usage for the site's analytics report.