The Secret Life of Books: 2x4
Confessions of an English Opium Eater
Performance poet and former heroin addict John Cooper Clarke explores Thomas de Quincey’s autobiographical classic Confessions of an English Opium Eater, and discovers how his fellow Mancunian’s addiction memoir avoids the cliches of modern ‘misery-lit’ in favour of something much more unsentimental and psychologically complex.
2 - 1The Faerie Queene Oct. 13, 2015- 2 - 2Edward Lear's Nonsense Songs Oct. 19, 2015
- 2 - 3The Mill on the Floss Oct. 25, 2015
- 2 - 4Confessions of an English Opium Eater Nov. 02, 2015
- 2 - 5Cider with Rosie Nov. 09, 2015
- 2 - 6Swallows and Amazons Nov. 16, 2015
