Skip all that ~ Robert Robinson Memoirs

Robert Robinson has a genius for winkling out the vanity that lies at the root of human behaviour. Here in this memoirs he charts with inimitable, self-deprecating humour, the quirky progress through life of a man who likes to think of himself as living on his wits. He depicts the extraordinary characters who dominated his childhood and adolescence, including his eccentric father, the neighbour – Captain Ferguson – who was to turn out to be a murderer, and the monstrous headmaster who instilled in him a passion for the written and the spoken word.