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Unique, transgressive and as funny as its subject, A Life Discarded has all the suspense of a murder mystery. Written with his characteristic warmth, respect and humour, Masters asks you to join him in celebrating an unknown and important life left on the scrap heap. A Life Discarded is a...

Questa storia comincia nel cuore dell'Inghilterra in un ventoso pomeriggio d'inizio millennio. A Cambridge, in mezzo al fango di un cantiere edile e ai resti scheletrici di un frutteto, vengono ritrovati 148 diari di un autore ignoto, gettati tra i rifiuti da una mano anonima. Pagine fitte di una scrittura esile e urgente, pallida come un respiro; duemilacinquecento parole al giorno aggiunte riga dopo riga con foga e disciplina. Per una vita intera.

An intimate portrait of an everyday genius. Alexander Master’s landlord, Simon, lives in the basement of their Cambridge house. Between teetering towers of outdated maps and slagheaps of plastic bags, Simon eats endless meals of tinned kippers and plans trips on the Cambridge public transport...

A unique biography of a homeless man and a complete portrait of the hidden underclass. ‘So here it is, my attempt at the story of Stuart Shorter, thief, hostage taker, psycho and sociopath street raconteur, my spy on how the British chaotic underclass spend their troubled days at the beginning...