Not My Father's Son is a memoir I wrote about my experiences during the summer of 2010, when I took part in the BBC TV series Who Do You Think You Are? At the same time as discovering the secrets of a family mystery about my maternal grandfather, Tommy Darling, I was also sideswiped by the revelation of my father telling me I was not his son.
The book was released in the US in October 2014, and in the UK a month later. It entered the New York Times Best Seller list in its first week of issue, and eventually made number one on the charts!
The book won the Slightly Foxed Best First Biography Prize, The Attitude Magazine Book of the Year, was nominated for Lambda Literary Award and a Bisexual Book Award and the audiobook (which I read) won two Audie awards in the Autobiography/Memoir and Narration by the Author categories.
It was also Book of the Week on BBC Radio 4