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Low expectations and thwarted desires: Geoff Dyer’s memoir of a working-class childhood

As a child, the writer Geoff Dyer made regular Friday visits to the house where his father was raised and where his father’s sister, Auntie Joan, still lived. While his parents talked with Joan, Geoff slipped upstairs. The landing’s ageing wallpaper was “brown or gloomy yellow”. Here stood a glass…

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Homework by Geoff Dyer review – coming of age in 70s England

Dyer conjures conker fights, saturday jobs and teenage rampages as he charts his journey from a two-up two-down in Gloucestershire to Oxford

The Guardian - UK

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From a river voyage with Robert Macfarlane to Helen Garner’s candid tale of a broken marriage, via Ian Leslie’s analysis of Lennon and McCartney’s complicated kinship, here are the titles you can’t afford to miss

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Milan Kundera obituary

Influential Czech-born author of the bestselling novel The Unbearable Lightness of Being

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The last days of Roger Federer, but more fascinating

Geoff Dyer shares details of his life that, taken by themselves are commonplace, even banal

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Look! We Have Come Through! by Lara Feigel review – a woman in love

The author draws parallels between her own life and that of DH Lawrence, making this memoir-cum-self-help book more than a little mystifying

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The Last Days of Roger Federer by Geoff Dyer review – the art of bowing out

From Roger Federer to Bob Dylan, George Best to Jean Rhys, Geoff Dyer roams widely in this finely crafted study of endings

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