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About this book
The humour of self-deprecation is peculiarly English. Few people do it better than Jeremy Lewis. His first two autobiographical volumes -
Playing for Time and
Kindred Spirits - are being reissued in Faber Finds to coincide happily with his third volume -
Grub Street Irregular - being published by HarperCollins.
The second volume of Jeremy Lewis's wonderfully entertaining autobiography sees him starting out, with a mixture of diffidence and self-professed incompetence, on a career in publishing. Along the way we see him tucking into cod and chips with Jane and Geoffrey Grigson, drinking tea with Kingsley Amis and retsina with Patrick Leigh-Fermor.
When reviewing this book, Christopher Sinclair-Stevenson called it 'The funniest book I have ever read about publishing...this is not merely a hugely entertaining book, but an important one'. That judgment still stands.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Table of Contents
- Dedication
- Apologia
- Prologue: Dreaming of Arcadia
- Chapter One: Carbonated Lightning
- Chapter Two: Tartar Sauce
- Chapter Three: ‘Deutschland über Alles’
- Chapter Four: The Steam-powered Computer
- Chapter Five: Seaview in the Rain
- Chapter Six: Oxonian Interlude
- Chapter Seven: William IV Street
- Chapter Eight: Heroes of our Time
- Chapter Nine: Waiting for the End
- Chapter Ten: Taking the Plunge
- Chapter Eleven: Scenes from a Garden Shed
- Envoi
- About the Author
- Copyright