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Author:   A. N. Wilson
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Imprint:   Bloomsbury Continuum
Dimensions:   Width: 15.30cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   0.454kg
ISBN:  

9781472994806

ISBN 10:   1472994809
Pages:   320
Publication Date:   01 September 2022
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Out of Print
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Introduction 1. Ungentle A. N. 2. Remind Me 3. Sorrowful Lay 4. Living up to the Blue China 5. Best of Young British 6. Masks 7. Norman Wilson’s Son 8. Leaving Germany 9. The Works 10. Frail Travelling 11. Andrew Woods 12. Contrasts 13. Warfare Accomplished 14. Miscarriages 15. What is my Name? 16. Convent Thoughts 17. Newcastle Road 18. When I Get There, I’ll Be Glad 19. Put Your Cap On, I Should 20. Notes for Boys 21. Little Bryan 22. Acqua Non Fizzimento 23. Journalistic Debut 24. A Bit of a Ruin 25. Mme de Liencourt, Mr Lowry and Others 26. Galsworthy Scholar 27. Kibbutznik 28. Lost Causes 29. Angel Fluffs 30. “Are they twa sweethearts?” 31. St Trinian’s 32. Superficial Journey 33. St Andrew’s by the Northern Sea 34. Prosaic and Drivelling 35. Clare 36. The Green Stick Index

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When you combine the deepest learning and the highest readability with the most plumptious story-telling, the result is A. N. Wilson ... * Stephen Fry * A. N. Wilson is the most enjoyably readable historian I know. * Antonia Fraser * A. N. Wilson is the supreme man of letters. He has conquered every field: journalism, novels, biography, history - and now memoir. He is planet-brained and very funny - a vanishingly rare combination. * Harry Mount *

When you combine the deepest learning and the highest readability with the most plumptious story-telling, the result is A. N. Wilson ... * Stephen Fry * A. N. Wilson is the most enjoyably readable historian I know. * Antonia Fraser * A. N. Wilson is the supreme man of letters. He has conquered every field: journalism, novels, biography, history - and now memoir. He is planet-brained and very funny - a vanishingly rare combination. * Harry Mount * I am stunned, as I always am, by Wilson's humanity and brilliance and hard honesty. * Deirdre McCloskey * Distinguished literary figure A. N. Wilson's exquisite memoir tells the story of the wife he fell for as a student then betrayed - and the lifetime of lust and longing that led to a deeply poignant ending. * Daily Mail * A. N. Wilson has written many brilliant biographies and novels but never a memoir - until now. It was worth the wait. So exhilarating. And definitely not a failed promise. * Telegraph *

Author Information

A. N. Wilson is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and holds a prominent position in the world of literature and journalism. He is a prolific and award-winning biographer and celebrated novelist. His novel, Winnie and Wolf, was longlisted for the Man Booker Prize. His last book The Mystery of Charles Dickens was published in 2020 to great critical acclaim and is at present being dramatized by Andrew Davies for British television.

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