It's 1984 and wearing the bad clothes and bad hairstyle that everyone wore back then because they didn't realise it was the early Eighties, Josh starts his first year at Oxford busting with hopes, ambitions, and ludicrously unrealistic expectations. Brideshead has just been on TV, the Sloane Ranger Handbook has laid down the rules, and now all Josh needs is to find his own Sebastian Flyte (preferably with a tasty sister). But what he also wants to do is to take lots of drugs, hang with the cool set, wear black, lose his virginity, shag lots of chicks and listen to the "Smiths and New Order". The two aims, he discovers, are not necessarily compatible. But then very few of his ambitions are, for Josh is a man who wants everything and isn't going to stop until he gets it. Or, at least, until ten years of heavy-duty reality intervene to hint that life might be a touch messier and more complicated than was dreamt of in his philosophy. "Thinly Disguised Autobiography" is the story of that rude awakening, from the horrors of Fleet Street to the thrills of the LA riots, the Es at the Wag to trips at Glastonbury, from Oxford to London via Venice, Spetses, Laguna Beach and Bromsgove: the highs, the lows, and even a tiny bit of romance.
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'If you like Nick Hornby, you'll like this' Daily Mail 'Sharp and enjoyable...A clever social comedy' The Times 'A thoroughly entertaining novel' Scotsman 'Canny, funny and refreshingly original' Mirror
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James Delingpole is rock critic for the Sunday Telegraph and TV critic for the Spectator. This is his third novel. He lives in London with his wife and children.
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The terrifying candour of the shameless,
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A bildungsroman without the bildung -- the publication of this confession of misdemeanours from which the author has insisted on learning nothing is simply the last and most wonderful of the gaffes it chronicles. You'll wince, deeply, lingeringly, astounded, repelled. Another Dr Faustus. Another wazzock. A phenomenon.
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So much for Oxford!,
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Sex, drugs and rock'n'roll! Look out, Rhodes scholars! An Oxford education is as fraught with mindless, self-destructive behavioral norms as any party school this side of the Atlantic. The author's subsequent career in journalism is hardly more dignified.
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