nice plug in shortlist

David Plummer, the non-fiction buying manager at Waterstone's - which is about the only book chain left in the UK after Borders and Books Etc went to the wall chose Angry White Pyjamas as one of four or five"Autobiographies for real-life lessons". It reads: "A poet from Oxford University trains with the Tokyo riot police and tells a tale of physical torture and spiritual transformation through the martial art of aikido." It is nice to be in there with Joe Simpson's Touching the Void and Valentino Rossi's autobiog ...