James Morrison
A Tipping Point
Stuart: A Life Backwards is a peculiar book. Billed as the story of ‘an extraordinary friendship between a reclusive writer and illustrator … and a chaotic, knife-wielding beggar’, it is part biography, part social commentary, and, one suspects, at least part fiction.
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