How to Dissapear

'Brilliant and haunting' -- Alan Hollinghurst Guardian 'His prose is as good/better than anyone now writing non-fiction. Fascinating stories and people. A must-read.' -- Susan Hill 'A wonderfully bookish memoirist with an exquisite sense of place.' -- William Leith Evening Standard 'Quirky, quixotic and glorious fun' -- Sebastian Shakespeare Tatler 'Vivid and highly pleasurable.' -- Toby Lichtig The Times Literary Supplement 'Magical, original and an unforgettable read' -- Richard Canning Independent 'Profundity, wit and joyful naughtiness' -- Christopher Silvester Daily Express 'A masterpiece of refined subversion' -- Stephen Bayley Financial Times 'Fallowell is a mischievous mixture of pagan sybarite and erudite aesthete' The Oldie 'A wonderful feat of writing and insight into our merciless, often beautiful world' -- Anthony Page, film and theatre director 'A book of the momentarily famous yet now often forgotten, this is an absorbing look into what happens when they leave the spotlight. It's poignant and often touching. This book will stay with you long after you have finished it.' -- Hannah Britt Daily Express 'Pick of the Paperbacks' 'The characters in this group biography may have disappeared from public consciousness, deliberately or otherwise, but they surface in Fallowell's insistence that their forgotten lives deserve a second act.' -- Iain Finlayson The Times 'His prose can be wonderful. He writes like a spikier Sebald, alternating between acerbic witticisms and passages of voluptuous description.' Independent 'Absorbing memoir. He is by turns erudite, catty, curious and nostalgic and the dominant questing figure in every adventure. There are images here that, unlike his central subjects, refuse to fade from view.' -- Ed Caesar Sunday Times