Book description
 The most brilliantly funny and genuinely thought-provoking book
of the year.' Sunday Times For some years, the biographer Roger Lewis
has been entertaining his friends with an annual letter, in which he
records details of the joys and frustrations of his life as it is
actually lived. Updated with a new section for spring, this  cult
classic', a hilarious collection of diaries and memoirs Â- highlights
of which include a trip up the Amazon River with countless ants and
Maureen Lipman; his eldest son Tristan training to be a juggler at
Zippos Circus (Â Frankly, where did Magdalen College, Oxford, ever get
me, eh?â ); the mystery of the stolen kettle at Age Concern; the
humiliation of not being invited to the premiere of his very own movie
at Cannes; and the way the Dell call-centre people in Bombay keep
thinking he's a woman.... With his sharp eye for folly, his malice Â-
and the unexpected shafts of humanity in spite of his chronic ill
temper Â- Roger Lewis is the Evelyn Waugh of the 21st century. These
addictive and paradoxically life-enhancing Seasonal Suicide Notes have
the makings of a lasting comic masterpiece.
Roger Lewis is the author of books about Laurence Olivier, Charles
Hawtrey and Anthony Burgess. His international bestselling biography The
Life and Death of Peter Sellers was adapted into a multi-award-winning
film. Married to an educational psychologist and with three sons, Lewis
divides his time between Herefordshire and Austria.
