From December 1966 until his murder in August 1967 Joe Orton kept a series of diaries which are one of the most candid & unfettered accounts of that remarkable era The diaries chronicle frankly & hilariously the literary successes (capped with an Evening Standard Award & overtures from the Beatles) the rejection of all conventions & the astonishing sexual adventures (at his mother's funeralwith a dwarf in Brighton) of a true literary iconoclast who believed there was no sense in being a rebel without applause