Centre of the Bed: An Autobiography

''Honest and intriguing ... beautifully written.'' Observer

''Joan Bakewell was everywhere at every stage: reporting on the Cuban missile crisis, interviewing Allen Ginsberg and Vaclav Havel, taking chunks out of the Berlin Wall when it fell...draped in the kaftan of Sixties sophistication.'' Independent on Sunday

Joan Bakewell''s life and times spans the Blitz in Manchester, Cambridge during the gl...