cover image Playing for Time

Playing for Time

Jeremy Lewis. Common Reader, $18.95 (245pp) ISBN 978-1-58579-013-5

For connoisseurs of quirky, amusing British autobiographies, there's Playing for Time by Jeremy Lewis (Cyril Connolly: A Life). First published in Britain in 1987, this memoir covers the Bertie Woosterish author's adventures at school and Dublin's Trinity College, as well as his bumbling efforts at travel abroad (Greece, Central America) and finding a job.