Danny Wallace's Blog

I have a brand new book coming out – all thanks to some VERY strange emails I found from a man I’d never met…

Those emails put some very unusual ideas in my head – and made me question my own behaviour.

Before leading me down a rabbit hole of conspiracies, spies, grifters and trolls…

It’s called SOMEBODY TOLD ME and it’s about how strange and weird the world has become in the past few years.

I met some amazing people along the way – from the man who spent 15 years convinced I was his sworn enemy to the guy who thinks something untoward is definitely happening… in Ipswich.

It’s out for pre-order today – including an option for Signed Copies, if you’d like me to scrawl in it…

Or, if you pre-order from Amazon, they’ll guarantee you only pay the lowest price it’s on for before it comes out.

I very much hope you like it.

More news on some other big projects soon…

During lockdown and the world of Corona, I’ve been writing a bunch of stuff.

Things about this, and things about that.

Kind of a mix of my ShortList column, with elements of Yes Man and a touch of the novels. And also a little of the clubs/collectives I’ve started over the years…

And I want you to be involved.

It’s going to be BIG and FUN and packed with stuff. In a way I haven’t done things before. And it would be great if you were part of it!

THE TIME IS COMING. All will be revealed.

Sign up to the mailing list above and I’ll let you know when it’s starting. But it’s starting soon.

I will call on you. You must assemble. Over and out.

Okay, so before I start my next book for grown-ups (as if you’re a grown-up!), I have another book for kids coming in March, and it’s my FAVOURITE.

It’s called THE DAY THE SCREENS WENT BLANK – because, can you imagine? It’s almost like a comedy horror for kids! And for parents.

If you can’t guess, it’s the story of all the screens in the world going blank at once… and how one little girl sets out to save the grandma she can no longer call (who remembers numbers any more?).

If you like the sound, please do pre-order. It really helps. I swear: if you don’t like it, I’ll eat a banana.

Well, I’ve been popping up on various people’s podcasts recently, talking about all sorts of things…

I’ll be on Jameela Jamil‘s iWeigh in the next week or three.

You can catch me on Ricky Gervais‘s Deadly Sirius show here…

Or on James O’Brien‘s Unfiltered here…

Or on Lifehacker‘s Upgrade here…

Or Sofie Hagen‘s Made of Human podcast, recorded at the Soho Theatre, here…

Or on Brian Cox and Robin Ince‘s Infinite Monkey Cage, recorded at the BBC Radio Theatre, here…

Well, I’ve been popping up on various people’s podcasts recently, talking about all sorts of things…

You can catch me on Ricky Gervais‘s Deadly Sirius show here…

Or on James O’Brien‘s Unfiltered here…

Or on Lifehacker‘s Upgrade here…

Or Sofie Hagen‘s Made of Human podcast, recorded at the Soho Theatre, here…

Or on Brian Cox and Robin Ince‘s Infinite Monkey Cage, recorded at the BBC Radio Theatre, here…

Ahead of the paperback release of F*** You Very Much on May 31st, please accept this series of podcasts with my compliments.

You don’t have to have read the book to get something out of them, but in the show, Marc Haynes and I attempt to dissect exactly why we’re all so bloody rude all of a sudden.

We’ve got guests. Callers. Emails. Science. And stories of ridiculous rudeness from our own lives.

Please do have a listen and subscribe if you like it… you can get it wherever you normally get your podcasts, or right here.

Hope you like it!

Yes. Vital broadcasts! I’m back on Radio X on Sundays between 11am and 1pm, playing records and setting ground rules for your life which I expect to be obeyed at all times. Sort of. You can download the podcast on iTunes if you can’t catch it live…

F You Very Much is about to come out in the States, so if that’s what brought you here, welcome. Now leave a nice review and tell all your pals, okay?

The proper paperback edition comes out here in the UK in June, and I’m just letting you know nice and early – we’re changing the title. It was always supposed to be called F*** You Very Much (it’s about rudeness, see) but we felt that title might make it difficult for The One Show and so on to talk about it. Now, though? F*** the One Show. The book needs its proper title.

And now I must stop using bad language, because Hamish and the Baby Boom! comes out in March. It’s definitely the silliest and maybe the funniest of the series, although that is not for me to say, and yet I’m saying it anyway. I do hope you’ll consider a copy for your tiny sidekicks.

The podcast I promised last year is ready and waiting to go. Has been for a while. But we have to wait for the platform it’s on to launch properly. That was a weird sentence to write. Anyway, it’ll be with you soon…

My brand new book is ready to go… and I owe it all to a hotdog.

A hotdog I never even got.

I CAN’T BELIEVE YOU JUST SAID THAT is what I wrote immediately after I was thrown out of a diner for asking where my hotdog was. And I very much would like you to read it.

It’s a book about rudeness. And about the terrifying wave of it that I genuinely think could end up destroying our world.

In it, I try ‘Radical Honesty’ in Germany. I meet my own internet troll. I tell you about the terrorist who could not believe how rude other terrorists were (they kept using his phone charger without asking!). And I try and find out the truth about what happened with that bloody hotdog.

You can pre-order the book right this second – let’s DO this!

For together we must fight the New Rudeness!

I’ve been knuckling down of late, and this year will see two brand new books – one for grown-ups, and one for kids…

Hamish and the GravityBurp comes out on March the 9th and I’ll be visiting some schools and saying hello to new members of the PDF…

And coming soon – my brand new book for grown-ups.

Sign up the mailing list above, and I’ll send you a video explaining just how this one came about very soon… or head over to the Facebook page where I’ll be giving some copies away for free soon too… and telling you about my upcoming Audible podcast series…

You can pre-order the new Hamish book here… I DARE YOU!

“Brilliant… irresistible… guaranteed to fire young imaginations and make the whole family laugh!” – Lancashire Post

Hi

I’ve been up to all sorts this past year – a script for Fox TV, writing on the new Assassin’s Creed Syndicate, enjoying a gig as Artist in Residence at BBC Comedy, popping up on TV and radio, handing in my 400th ShortList column, and some other stuff too.

Coming up, the FX network in the States are prepping a new JOIN ME project, from the guys behind the excellent You’re The Worst.

And this year I’ll be starting a couple of secret things, a new podcast for something exciting, writing a new book for grown-ups, and releasing this… the second Hamish adventure for kids.

In this one, Hamish discovers a whole new world of people just like us… while being the complete opposite, too. I hope if you have kids they’ll enjoy it. Look out for the TV ads!

Pre-order a copy right here, and it’ll be delivered on day of release!

I’m also delighted to say that the first book’s been chosen to be read by the kids of Brighton, in their brilliant Young City Reads scheme. Can’t wait to get down there.

I love you!