The Centre of the Bed by Joan Bakewell essays including a particularly memorable villain

including a particularly memorable villain

the traditional image of dinosaurs has been “decisively overturned”

Pete Townshend and Jimmy Page were “all skifflers in their youth” (though they later tended to downplay that fact)

It's a novel which twists and writhes with all the terrifying precision of a tiny fish in an Escher lithograph - a book where the mere telling of a story is the end of certainty

whom he met in the south of France

The Centre of the Bed by Joan Bakewell essays including a particularly memorable villainHonest and intriguing beautifully written.' The ObserverJoan Bakewell's life and times spans the Blitz in Manchester, Cambridge during the glittering era of Michael Frayn, Peter Hall, Jonathan Miller et al, London at its most exciting in the swinging sixties and the world of the media and the arts from the 60s to the present. As she reflects on the choices she has made and the influences that shaped her, she confronts painful childhood memories of her