num_pages: 296
description: This is the story of Stuart Shorter: thief, hostage-taker, psycho and street raconteur. It is a story told backwards, as he wanted, from the man he was when Alexander Masters met him to a "happy-go-lucky little boy" of twelve. Brilliant, humane and funny, it is as extraordinary and unexpected as the life it describes.
language: English
title: Stuart: A Life Backwards
titlecomplete: Stuart: A Life Backwards
genres: British Literature, Autobiography, Mental Health, Psychology, Biography Memoir, Biography, Contemporary, Memoir, Book Club, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 4687
awards: awardedAt: 1104566400000
name: Guardian First Book Award, awardedAt: 1104566400000
name: James Tait Black Memorial Prize
category: Biography, awardedAt: 1136102400000
name: Hawthornden Prize, awardedAt: 1136102400000
name: National Book Critics Circle Award
category: Autobiography, awardedAt: 1104566400000
name: Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction
publisher: HarperCollins Publishers