Book description
This is Roger Lewis at his best: more cantankerous and curmudgeonly wit
and musings about the pointlessness of life. Dark, witty and hilarious,
Roger Lewis has a real way with words. Unremittingly glorious. I and
the world demand more and we shall thump our tin mugs on the table
demanding it until we are satisfied.' Though he'd have you believe he
was an aristocratic orpan left in the jungle and raised by monkeys,
Roger Lewis was in fact born in industrial South Wales in te last
century, educated in Scotland, and became a Fellow of Wolfson College,
Oxford, at the age of twenty-four. His book The Life and Death of Peter
Sellers was made into the Golden Globe and Emmy award-winning film by
HBO, starring Geoffrey Rush and Charlize Theron.
Lewis, who in 2010 received an Honorary Doctorate of Letters, divides
his time between a collapsing Georgian property in the Herefordshire
Balkans and a flat above a dirndl shop in the imperial spa town of Bad
Ischl, near Salzburg in Austria. When in London he is reliably to be
found in Rules, the charming old-world restaurant in Covent Garden.
