Often hilarious and certainly astonishing, this is the novelist’s memoir of growing up in Sheffield in the 1950s. His father, an insecure bully, adopted a toupée, which functioned as an instrument with which to control his children and wife. (Also available in hardback).
My Own Worst Enemy: Scenes of a Childhood
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£9.99
Edition:Paperback978180075083801/09/2022From a Bookshelf nearby
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Brought up in North Carolina in the Jim Crow era, AT won a postgraduate scholarship to Brown University, worked at Warhol's Factory and volunteered for Diana Vreeland. He went on to become e... read more
The Chiffon Trenches
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A marvellous debut from a young man of complex literary and musical parentage: birds of a feather, sins of the father, on and off the rails (the cenotaph too, memorably) - and a magpie calle... read more
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Rescuing My Father & Other Stories
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The charming, funny wartime diaries of the Countess of Ranfurly, 1939-1945: the latest Slightly Foxed limited edition.