Maps of My Life, By Guy Browning

Guy Browning's favourite reading material in the "small room" has always been Philip's School Atlas, hence he decided that his memoirs should also be the story of his best-loved maps.

These cartographic-based gems range from early days in Chipping Norton, to memories of his father's brief posting to El Salvador.

A humorist with a gift for absurdity, Browning's account will bring a smile to the face of anyone born in the Sixties, especially those familiar with "Long Marches" – family rambles involving short-cuts across M.O.D. Danger Areas.

The funniest chapter recounts his courtship of a girl and a series of disastrous encounters with her father.