Waterstones Liverpool welcomes Malcolm Prince - Not The Same Without You

We are thrilled and honoured to welcome Malcolm Prince who joins us to discuss his poignant and loving to tribute to his best pal Paul O'Grady. In Not The Same Without You, Malcolm shares stories of the man millions loved, and felt like they knew.

It’s more than two years since the much-loved entertainer, broadcaster and national treasure Paul O’Grady died, and yet his voice still echoes — in laughter, in memory, in the unshakeable affection of millions.

In this deeply personal and definitive biography, Paul’s longtime collaborator Malcolm Prince draws on two decades of friendship — and over 100 hours of candid audio recordings — to tell the story of the man behind the icon: the sharp-witted, fiercely loyal, irrepressibly funny, and deeply private individual, known to his close friends as ‘Savage’ — and to the public, in various guises, as the prime time TV star, the nation’s dog-loving agony uncle, and a Sunday afternoon radio companion. Malcolm revisits the stages Paul made his own, from the Royal Vauxhall Tavern to the London Palladium; the moments that shaped him; and draws on brand-new interviews with the people who knew him best, including his daughter and grandchildren.

This is a portrait not just of a gifted entertainer, but of a complex, fiercely loyal, and endlessly curious man, reflecting on a friendship built on shared laughter, private rants, righteous fury, long phone calls, and a healthy dose of gossip — and on a professional legacy that still feels astonishing in its range and resonance.

Packed with warmth, humour and never-before-heard stories, Not the Same Without You captures the full measure of a man who defied convention, challenged institutions, made mischief — and made us all feel like we were his best pal.

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