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Paperback
ISBN13: 9781808961397
Publisher: Bookpublication.Co.UK
Published: Oct 15 2026
Pages: 212
Weight: 0.64
Height: 0.45 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
What do a brutal English classroom, a first-class ticket to nowhere, and a murder trial have in common?
They are all stops on the same absurd journey.
Tim Wilshire has no intention of telling you what he had for breakfast. What he offers instead is something far more entertaining: a wickedly funny, unsentimental ramble through half a century of growing up, growing out, and occasionally dodging the shrapnel.
From oak desks carved by generations of Old Boys to the eccentric corridors of the legal profession, Wilshire charts the making of a mind that learned early not to take authority too seriously. He follows the hippie trail into a world where a charming stranger's generosity might cost you a decade in a foreign cell. He stands inside a courtroom as a murder trial forces everyone to decide where provocation ends and calculation begins. And then, in a fit of distinctly human madness, he chooses to live abroad.
Along the way, you will find:
- Razor-sharp observations on class, privilege, and the English education system
- Behind-the-scenes legal drama, told with the eye of someone who was there
- The seductions and close calls of the 1970s hippie trail
- The comic humiliations and quiet triumphs of the expatriate life
- A warm, wry voice that never lectures and never moralizes
This is a book for readers who loved the dry mischief of Edward Thomas, the institutional mischief of a good British campus novel, and memoirs that understand a simple truth: if you cannot laugh at the absurdity of human nature, you will end up weeping into your favourite drink.
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