BY THE SAME AUTHOR
Withnail & I
The Peculiar Memories of Thomas Penman
Also Available by Bruce Robinson
The Peculiar Memories of Thomas Penman
From the author of Withnail and I, this is the story of a dysfunctional family. It is about a boy and his grandpa, life and death, sex and hate, dog’s meat and cancer. It is also about pornography, enemas, Morse codes, puberty, secrets, God and loathing. It is also about love.
‘Magnificent … Intensely funny’
Empire
‘Profoundly moving … There should be a law against this being called a debut novel. It’s far too clever, too assured and too damn good to be a first attempt’
Independent on Sunday
‘Beautiful … Almost every passage of this book hums with particularity and vision … Thomas Penman is the work of a genuine prose-writer – and a gifted one at that’
Observer
‘Grotesque, lyrical, touching and darkly comic. But I would have expected no less from the author and director of Withnail and I‘
Spectator
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Withnail and I
A screenplay of the classic cult film by Bruce Robinson, with an introduction by the director
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