Oh Miriam! : Stories from an Extraordinary Life by Miriam Margolyes

Oh Miriam! : Stories from an Extraordinary Life by Miriam Margolyes'Oh Miriam! risks the curse of the sequel, and pulls it off . . . A force of nature, a tour de farce. Bold, brave and bright, but also revealing, shocking and touching. Miriam is an icon, a cocksucker and the star of her show' ROBERT McCRUM, Independent'Our naughtiest national treasure . . . famously filthy, funny and phlegmatic . . . Oh Miriam! is Margolyes's manifesto for a fulfilled life . . . She loves to tell it straight. And the older she gets,

She happily inhabits a world of her own making

including the German lands as well as Ukraine and Switzerland

Reprieved from the gallows and sent to war clutching a box of orphan Gods

And like most of humanity

'Steeped in poison

Mythos: The Illustrated Story captures these extraordinary myths for our modern age in striking colour - in all their dazzling and deeply human relevance

Sebald'A reader is really privileged to come across something like this' Alan Sillitoe

moss is the spark that triggers new life

As a low-caste cleaner for a wealthy family

in an adventure through a winter wonderland

79 Illustrations

A WATERSTONES BOOK OF THE YEARWho said that dictatorship was dead