“I haven’t written it because I think I’m special. I’ve written it because I think I’m typical.” Robert Webb in the Irish Times talking about how How Not To Be a Boy has made some angry men angrier, and why he’s not a feminist Yoda.
Irish Times
“A very, very good book. Lucas’ writing style has warmth and honesty … I found his tales of his growing up, and his early attempts to break the comedy circuit, fascinating and at times very moving.”
Den of Geek
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“The particular span of John Lister-Kaye’s life adds both authority and poignancy to his deeply affecting recollections.”
Philip Marsden
The Spectator
Robert Webb on gender conditioning (or, the way you get told how to behave because of what’s in your pants) – from How Not To Be a Boy.
Announcing the Dragon’s Green audiobook!
Samin Nosrat introduces her new book Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat: Mastering the Elements of Good Cooking. “I have become slightly obsessed… revolutionary in its simplicity” Yotam Ottolenghi
‘McCormack brilliantly manages the pace and rhythm of each sentence, paragraph, page and sequence. The effect is to find oneself (to quote the narrator) ‘suspended in a time of stalled duration’, becalmed on the sea of memory.’
Literary Review