Waking Up in Toytown
A Memoir
$25.11
- Paperback
288 pages
- Release Date
18 November 2025
Summary
With wit, precision and grace, John Burnside’s second memoir traces the aftershocks of a troubled childhood into troubled adulthood.
With a new introduction by Sarah Perry
“Among the best writers of his generation, fully voiced and perfectly pitched” Andrew O’Hagan
In the early 80s, after a decade of drug abuse and borderline mental illness, John Burnside resolved to escape his addictive personality and find calm in a ‘Surbiton of the mind.’ But the suburbs are not qui…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781529962871 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1529962870 |
| Author: | John Burnside |
| Publisher: | Vintage Publishing |
| Imprint: | Vintage |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 288 |
| Release Date: | 18 November 2025 |
| Weight: | 207g |
| Dimensions: | 196mm x 129mm x 18mm |
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About The Author
John Burnside
John Burnside was among the most acclaimed writers of his generation. His novels, short stories, poetry and memoirs won numerous awards, including the Geoffrey Faber Memorial, Saltire Scottish Book of the Year and, in 2023, he received the David Cohen Prize for a lifetime’s achievement in literature. In 2011 Black Cat Bone won both the Forward and the T.S. Eliot Prizes for poetry. He died in 2024.
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