Christopher used to write for Private Eye and is pleased to announce the publication of his book Who's My Bottom?

Published Reviews

"...this man can really write. The result is a genuinely funny and original take on the pushes and pulls of an opera singer's life.... Makes for a worldly, multi-faceted story, which Gillett relates in his own particular no-holds-barred style, coupled with a descriptively inventive turn of phrase which will actually have you laughing out loud.... Gillett has given us everything we could ask for: dramatic pacing, humour, insight, thematic threads and a big ending."

Antonia Couling, Classical Music Magazine 

"He has a comic talent for bringing people and objects to life... instructive as well as richly entertaining."

 Richard Nicholson, http://www.classicalsource.com

"The book is essentially a series of brief and hilarious glimpses of behind-the-scenes madness in the opera world. Not necessarily grand scale madness, but just the sort of absurdities, eccentricities and frustrations which every singer runs into, but which few, I suspect, would have the talent to do justice on paper. Gillett, however, has just that talent. He's honest – about himself as much as anybody or anything else – but not bitchy; he names just enough names (and places) that a cursory Google will find you the specifics (if you need them); and above all he's very, very funny."

Sarah Noble http://primalamusica.typepad.com 

Some feedback so far:

I loved it..I Iaughed till I cried...and I think you are a bloody genius!

Susan Bullock

LOVED it. It was a terrific, can't put it down read. It arrived two days ago and is already dog eared! I loved his style of writing and his frankness and honesty were both refreshing and beguiling. Great. 

Graham Clark

It's no exaggeration to say that Who's My Bottom? made me laugh out loud, abruptly and in public places, many times--and brought tears to my eyes at others. 
Steven Blier 

Terrific. By turns hilarious and touching. Clive Bayley

You constantly hit so many nails bang on the head it was a joy, and also very moving.
Richard Berkeley-Steele

Very funny, painfully honest, and invariably true. A real
insight into a working opera singer's life

Nicholas Hytner 

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