Ian Sansom

Don Paterson is frank, fearless and furious about everything

Leaving poetry aside, his memoir covers insanity, debt, drugs, narcissism, religious mania and, more generally, the lengths we go to not to be bored

Don Paterson. Alamy
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  • Toy Fights: A Boyhood

    Don Paterson

    Faber, pp. 384, £16

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