Me : The Authorised Biography

NEW PAPERBACK EDITION Following two magisterial biographies of the novelist/publisher J.L Carr, and the vicar and poet R.S Thomas - Byron Rogers completes the trilogy with a third biography from left-field: of himself.

Prompted by the unlikely discovery that someone purporting to be him was seducing women all over the country, Rogers takes a look at his own life and its pivotal events.

The book has justifiably been praised for its uproarious comedy and gentle wit.

But it is also deeply moving, with piercing accounts of the lives of two of the authors' friends and their ultimately tragic declines.

In its account of Rogers' improbable stint writing speeches for Prince Charles the book revisits what one previous reviewer dubs Byronia, that curiously and irritatingly indefinable stretch of territory lying somewhere between the mundane and the marvellous, the workaday and the weird Byron Rogers' books for Aurum include his biography of R.S.

Thomas, The Man Who Went into the West, which won the James Tait Black Prize, The Last Englishman, The Bank Manager and the Holy Grail and An Audience with an Elephant.

He lives in Northamptonshire and in Wales.