I was born in 1939. The other big event of that year was the outbreak of the Second World War, but for the moment, that did not affect me. In the first instalment of Clive Jamess memoirs, we meet the young Clive, dressed in short trousers, and wrestling with the demands of school, various relatives and the occasional snake, in the suburbs of post-war Sydney. Paperback , First , 175 pages Published November 7th 2008 by Picador (first published 1980)