Germs

'A frighteningly good memoir'

London Review of Books

'Wollheim's powers of description astound...Because of the intensity with which a remarkable man has offered us a view of his inner self, I doubt whether anyone who has read it will forget it'

Literary Review

'Germs is not only elegantly written; it is a human document of considerable power and importance'

Independent

'Pungently truthful, complex and original'

Guardian

'A masterpiece - an unclassifiable work of startling originality in which the acutely sensual and confusedly cerebral experience of infancy, boyhood and adolescence is brilliantly recreated'

Spectator