Sometimes, you read a book and it fills you with this weird evangelical zeal, and you become convinced that the shattered world will never be put back together unless and until all living humans read the book.
Martin Amis once moaned on the radio that there were too many writers talking across the table to their readers rather than down to them. This was the point I went off Martin Amis.
Every summer since I was little, I’ve gone to garage sales and bought all the books that looked interesting. So I always have something to read.
Take a sneak peak inside
A unique look at a time of great social change.
- Sixty four pages.
- Nineteen full colour illustrations.
- Sixteen great stories.
A word from the Author
I always imagined that authors lived in country houses, clacked on typewriters and smoked pipes or wore Laura Ashley frocks and gathered flowers from the garden in a trug.
Now where did I put my smoking jacket?
