The Best of the Raconteurs

This anthology collects first-person anecdotes by people known for telling a story aloud: actors, journalists, novelists, and public figures who recount a meeting, a wartime scrape, a family disaster, or a moment of social collapse. The pieces are short and independent, closer to spoken performance than to the short story. Typical subjects are travel, theatre, politics, and the narrator's own embarrassment. There is no frame and no continuous plot. The book is a gathering of practised oral narrative written down, not a dictionary of quotations and not a single autobiography.

Bound in orange cloth blocked in black with a wrap-around illustration. Pale brown endleaves. Flecked orange slipcase.