

Before that, Andy extols the mellow intoxications offered by Maurice Gorham’s The Local (with illustrations by Edward Ardizzone) and John enjoys the subversive comic elan of Percival Everett’s I Am Not Sidney Poitier published by the always-excellent Influx Press. The main book featured is The Diary of a Nobody by George & Weedon Grossmith, first serialised in Punch magazine in 1888 – 1889 and published in volume form by J.W. Last year, he wrote introductions and annotations for the book under discussion today and has just released a new podcast called Laars Head's Supernormal.

He is the former Editor-in-Chief of Bluffer's Guides, and the current Editor-in-Chief of a free app called Sidekick, helping people with mental health issues. Edward is the author of one novel, Conversations with Spirits, published by Unbound in 2013 and shortlisted for the Guardian First Book Award. Johnson episode, and most recently a memoir about her mother's strange early life, On Chapel Sands, which Andy talked about in the episode on Ray Bradbury’s The Illustrated Man. She is the Observer's art critic and wrote T he Vanishing Man, a book about Velazquez which we discussed in the B.S. Laura first appeared in December 2016 to discuss Jane Gardam’s A Long Way from Verona. Publication date 1892 Topics Suburban life - Fiction. The Diary of a nobody by Grossmith, George Grossmith, Weedon. In this episode, John, Andy & Nicky are joined by Laura Cumming & Edward Higgins. The Diary of a nobody Bookreader Item Preview.
