Leyla Sanai

The Feelgood factor

In a cancer memoir with an unusually happy ending, the guitarist Wilko Johnson confounds medical opinion to survive his apparently terminal illness

issue 21 May 2016

  • Don’t You Leave Me Here: My Life

    Wilko Johnson

    Little Brown, pp. 256

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