Every Alan Partridge Project Ranked From Worst To Best

Partridge’s second published memoir doesn’t hit the career-spanning heights of his first, but pure unfiltered Alan is almost always a cause for celebration. The long form of the books allows the character to follow his trademark meandering thought experiments further than ever before, and in Nomad, Coogan and the Gibbons brothers squeeze a concept for all it’s worth.

Upon discovering a box of old paperwork, Alan discovers that his father once took a journey to a power plant for a job interview, but never made it there. In order to forge a bond through history, he resolves to undertake the same journey on foot. The trip, he assures us, is exclusively a tribute to his dad, though if it boosts his brand or nets him a six part documentary series, so be it.

While less focussed than I, Partridge, the diversions are so often the best parts, most notably a chapter-long diatribe launched at fellow DJ and presenter Noel Edmonds, every line of which is solid gold. Alan Partridge has a good claim as one of the funniest authors ever to grace the page.