484pp, 850g. Cream boards, gold lettering on spine, 8 pp black and white photographs, index. Boards and dustjacket have slight wear head and heel of spine, small marks lower page edges. Aldiss recalls growing up in Norfolk and Devon, the comaraderie of the army (Burma) and the sobriety of post-war England; bookselling in Oxford; Marital breakdown and impoverishment; life as a struggling novelist and literary editor; his seminal role in science fiction's New Wave in the 1960's; and his frienships with Kingsley Amis, J G Ballard, Doris Lessing and Michael Moorcock among others.