I wrote this Op-Ed about scottish independence on the eve of the referendum in 2014
Not My Father's Son
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
In Concert
The only concerts I gave in 2014 were in Provincetown. They were originally supposed to be Liza and Alan shows, but unfortunately due to her back injury she had to pull out so it was just The Alan Show. In fact there were two of them, in one night, with profits going to the Trevor Project.
I don't normally put reviews on this website, but this one is pretty special.