Family Business Richard Gwyn King's vividly remembered and often

King's vividly remembered and often brutally detailed story makes a book whose appeal far exceeds the jazz cognescenti and is by turns funny

In the fifties he was Professor of Poetry at Oxford University and was later made a Companion of Literature by the Royal Society of Literature

a stinging slangy that-there thingyness of observation and detail…"

screenwriter and journalist

"One hardly expects so much pleasure in a small collection

Family Business Richard Gwyn King's vividly remembered and oftenPeter J. Conradis memoir Family Business includes a cast of characters ranging from his European Jewish forebears who came to Britain in the Victorian era to influential novelist and philosopher Iris Murdoch, whose biography Conradi himself wrote. The arc of Conradis story travels, unusually, from the relative integration of his ancestors to his rebellion against this and his long association with Murdoch, another outsider in English society. Against