“It’s a kind of reincarnation without death: all these different lives we get to live in this one body, as ourselves.”
“When I try to imagine the addresses of the houses and apartments I lived in before my grandparents kidnapped me, I can’t remember anything.”
“How rich and diverse, how complex and non-linear the history of all women is.”
“All that matters is that you are making something you love, to the best of your ability, here and now.”
“I haven’t written it because I think I’m special. I’ve written it because I think I’m typical.” Robert Webb in the Irish Times talking about how How Not To Be a Boy has made some angry men angrier, and why he’s not a feminist Yoda.
Irish Times
“A very, very good book. Lucas’ writing style has warmth and honesty … I found his tales of his growing up, and his early attempts to break the comedy circuit, fascinating and at times very moving.”
Den of Geek
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“The particular span of John Lister-Kaye’s life adds both authority and poignancy to his deeply affecting recollections.”
Philip Marsden
The Spectator
Robert Webb on gender conditioning (or, the way you get told how to behave because of what’s in your pants) – from How Not To Be a Boy.
Announcing the Dragon’s Green audiobook!
Samin Nosrat introduces her new book Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat: Mastering the Elements of Good Cooking. “I have become slightly obsessed… revolutionary in its simplicity” Yotam Ottolenghi