My Fault
  • Published: 1 October 2007
  • ISBN: 9780753510612
  • Imprint: Virgin Books
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 320
  • RRP: $45.00

My Fault

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Born into the emerging middle classes of the 1950s, Billy Childish takes us on a nightmarish voyage through a childhood blighted by mental and sexual abuse. Stumbling onward into adolescence he lays bare a young man's desperate attempts to make sense of a world distorted by alcohol, bullies and yes men, This striking first novel, or 'creative confession', is at turns hilarious and harrowing. Laced with lindes of unforgettable poetry it is that rare and wonderful thing - a book which had to be written.
  • Published: 1 October 2007
  • ISBN: 9780753510612
  • Imprint: Virgin Books
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 320
  • RRP: $45.00
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About the author

Billy Childish

Billy Childish was born in 1959 in Chatham, Kent, and left school at sixteen. After working in Chatham Naval Dockyard as an apprentice stonemason, he went on to study painting, which proved to be unsatisfactory.

Billy Childish was diagnosed dyslexic at the age of 28. Despite this, he has published more than thirty poetry collections and three novels. He has recorded over one hundred albums on a variety of independent record labels and exhibited paintings all over the world.

Praise for My Fault

A self-made intellectual of a particularly English stripe, Mr Childish has sworn loyalty to populist art at its rawest.

The New York Times

Britain's greatest cultural asset.

Guardian

Raw, unmediating, bruisingly shocking.

Daily Telegraph

Terse, gutsy and powerfully humane.

Time Out