The Centre of the Bed by Joan Bakewell essays It has earned the reputation

It has earned the reputation of being the book no dealer

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

including a particularly memorable villain

two near-fatal car crashes

the traditional image of dinosaurs has been “decisively overturned”

The Centre of the Bed by Joan Bakewell essays It has earned the reputationHonest 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