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A Carnival of Snackery: Diaries 2003-2020

Little, Brown £20

Throughout his twenties and well into his thirties, David Sedaris was an embarrassment to his family.

He was always on the move, dropping in and out of college and flirting with hard drugs, as he drifted from one odd job to the next. The only constant was the diary in which he recorded every bad or funny thing that happened to him or his family.

His big break came in Chicago in 1992, when the radio host Ira Glass invited

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