A Pound of Paper - Confessions of a book addict

In the rural Australia of the fifties where John Baxter grew up, reading books was regarded with suspicion; owning and collecting them with utter incomprehension. Despite this, by the age of eleven Baxter had "collected" his first book - The Poems of Rupert Brooke. He'd read it often, but now he had to own it. This modest purchase marked the beginning of an obsession that would take him all over the world... In the comic tradition of Clive James' Unreliable Memoirs, A Pound of Paper is a brilliantly readable, honest and funny account of a life spent in pursuit of a passion - of how a boy from the bush came to be living in a Paris penthouse with a library worth millions.