Michael Green, author of the "Art of Coarse" books, has now written the second part of his autobiography, the eagerly awaited sequel to The Boy Who Shot Down an Airship. Returning from the Army in badly fitting demob clothes, the author resumed his career as a local journalist in a land where rationing was still in force. Most of the editorial staff had also returned from the war and were continuing hostilities, this time with the tight-fisted editor. Pay was poor and drunken reporters liable to besiege the editor in his office. There was little glamour and the most exciting story an illicit love affair between attendants at the town"s chief male and female lavatories, which used to close when passion overtook the couple. Home life was a succession of cheap lodgings where female guests were banned, so romances had to be conducted up alleys or in the parks. But after the grim years of conflict, social life flourished and Green could indulge his fondness for sport and the theatre, where his disastrous experiences sowed the seeds of the coming series which later became a household word. Fleet Street proved a bitter disappointment at first, but it was a chance meeting there which led to the first of many bestsellers being written. Nobody Hurt in Small Earthquake is at times comic, at times nostalgic and occasionally sad, the picture of the 1950s full of vividly remembered detail and the account of newspaper life hilariously drawn. "Funny, ribald and nostalgic... a celebration of at least some of our yesterdays" Evening Standard "Michael Green"s autobiography reveals him as one M our most delicate comic writers...the reader will laugh till he"s silly" Daily Telegraph