{"product_id":"toy-fights-by-don-paterson-9780571240272","title":"Toy Fights","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDon Paterson was born in Dundee, Scotland, in 1963 and spent his boyhood living on a working-class council housing estate. \u003cem\u003eToy Fights\u003c\/em\u003e is the remarkable story of his first twenty years.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThis is not just a book about music and family, but also about 'schizophrenia, hell, money, narcissists, debt and the working class, anger, swearing, drugs, books, football, love, origami, the peculiar insanity of Dundee, sugar, religious mania, the sexual excesses of the Scottish club band scene and, more generally, the lengths we go to not to be bored.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eA truly remarkable feat of storytelling - as funny as it is dark - this is a memoir that sits alongside Lorna Sage's \u003cem\u003eBad Blood\u003c\/em\u003e, Clive James' \u003cem\u003eUnreliable Memoirs\u003c\/em\u003e, Deborah Orr's \u003cem\u003eMotherwell\u003c\/em\u003e and Douglas Stuart's \u003cem\u003eShuggie Bain\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Allen \u0026 Unwin","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46846866227436,"sku":"9780571240272","price":39.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/10078833482391.jpg?v=1758925332","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/products\/toy-fights-by-don-paterson-9780571240272","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}