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Bryan Magee has had a many-sided career. In the 1960s and 70s he worked in broadcasting, as a current affairs reporter on ITV and a critic of the arts on BBC Radio 3. At one time he taught philosophy at Oxford, where he was a tutor at Balliol College. His best remembered television programmes are two long series about philosophy: for the first he was awarded the Silver Medal of the Royal Television Society, while the book he based on the second was a bestseller. From 1974 to 1983 he was Member of Parliament for Leyton, first as Labour, then as a Social Democrat. He is now a full-time author and has written over twenty books, including Clouds of Glory, a memoir about his childhood in Hoxton. He has also written several books on the history of philosophy. His books have been translated into more than twenty languages.

Books by Bryan Magee

Growing Up In A War

A beautifully written evocation of lost world and a vanished childhood, by the author of Clouds of Glory.

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Clouds Of Glory

'The best childhood memoir I know' - Jonathan Mirsky, Spectator

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