Seasonal suicide notes: my life as it is lived

My Life as it is Lived. For some years, the biographer Roger Lewis has been entertaining his friends with a letter at Christmas. Here for the first time is a book-length version of this 'cult classic', a hilarious collection of diaries and memoirs - highlights of which include a trip up the Amazon River with countless ants and Maureen Lipman, his eldest son Tristan training to be a juggler at Zippo's Circus ('Frankly, where did Magdalen College, Oxford, ever get me, eh?'), the humiliation of not being invited to the premiere of his very own movie at Cannes, and the way the Dell call-centre people keep thinking he's a woman...