Brian Dillon was born in Dublin in 1969. He writes on the arts, books and culture for a number of publications. His first book, In the Dark Room, won the Irish Book Award for Non-fiction in 2006. He lives in Canterbury.
It's so good that, after reading it, I needed a lie-down.
*Guardian Books of the Year*
A brilliant series of portraits
*Observer*
Fascinating ... Written with great elegance and shrewd
understanding
*Guardian Books of the Year*
Illuminating, humane and beautiful
*Independent*
Ingenious and intriguing
*Guardian*
Brian Dillon is a superbly careful writer. ... [This book] will
delight, move and horrify any of the millions of us who, like the
late Spike Milligan, have at one time or another contemplated
having "I told you I was ill" inscribed on our gravestones.
*Daily Mail*
A mini-masterpiece
*Observer*
Excellent
*Sunday Times*
Strangely delightful ... Dillon's book is constantly
intelligent
*Scotland on Sunday*
You don't need to be a hypochondriac to enjoy this series of
discursive, insightful essays that are full of quirky details and
fascinating anecdotes
*Mail on Sunday*
Illuminating
*Sunday Telegraph*
Eloquent and incisive
*Independent*
Dillon's mind is as interesting as those of the people he writes
about ... bizarrely unputdownable
*Irish Times*
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