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Odd boy out /

by Brandreth, Gyles Daubeney.
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookPublisher: UK : Michael Joseph, 2021Description: vii, 439 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (black and white, and colour) ; 24 cm.ISBN: 9780241483718 (hbk.) :; 0241483719 (hbk.) :; 9780241483725 (pbk).Classification number: 920 BRASubject(s): Brandreth, Gyles Daubeney, 1948- | Television personalities -- Great Britain -- Biography | Authors, English -- 20th century -- Biography | Politicians -- Great Britain -- Biography | Biography | Biography | Biography & non-fiction prose | Autobiography: arts & entertainment | Autobiography: historical, political & military | MemoirsSummary: 'I am what my childhood made me.' But what is that exactly, Gyles? Who are you? And why? In this book, Gyles Brandreth provides an extraordinarily revealing account of growing up and coming of age in an apparently well-to-do but always strapped-for-cash middle-class English family. It is a story about the ordinary things - family life, happiness, ambition, and love, but it is also about adventures - meeting princes and presidents, visiting Death Row in America, exploring the sex clubs of Copenhagen. It is a story of a boy blessed with wit and what he got up to and the people he met growing up in the most wonderful city in all the world in those extraordinary years after the Second World War.
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Book - Adult Hardback Netherton Library Adult Non-Fiction 920 BRA (Browse shelf(Opens below)) On hold 003100722X 1
Book - Adult Hardback Crosby Library Adult Non-Fiction 920 BRA (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 003100133X
Book - Adult Hardback Formby Library Adult Non-Fiction 920 BRA (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Checked out 30/10/2024 003100131X
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Book - Adult Hardback Southport Library Adult Non-Fiction 920 BRA (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 003100132X
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Illustrations on lining papers.

Includes index.

'I am what my childhood made me.' But what is that exactly, Gyles? Who are you? And why? In this book, Gyles Brandreth provides an extraordinarily revealing account of growing up and coming of age in an apparently well-to-do but always strapped-for-cash middle-class English family. It is a story about the ordinary things - family life, happiness, ambition, and love, but it is also about adventures - meeting princes and presidents, visiting Death Row in America, exploring the sex clubs of Copenhagen. It is a story of a boy blessed with wit and what he got up to and the people he met growing up in the most wonderful city in all the world in those extraordinary years after the Second World War.

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