I was born in 1939 The other big event of that year was the outbreak of the Second World War but for the moment that did not affect me' In Unreliable Memoirs the first instalment of Clive James's memoirs we meet the young Clive dressed in short trousers & wrestling with the demands of school various relatives & the occasional snake in the suburbs of post-war Sydney His adventures are hilarious his recounting of them even more so in this
- the book that started it all