Behind the Scenes at the Museum of Baked Beans

Hunter Davies OBE is the author of the only ever authorised biography of The Beatles, first published in 1968 and still in print in almost every country in the world. In 2012 he edited The Lennon Letters, published in 20 different foreign countries, and in 2014 The Beatles Lyrics. He is the author of more than 30 other books, including novels, biographies, travel and children’s titles. As a journalist, he has written for Punch, the Guardian and the Sunday times, and continues to contribute to the New Statesman. He lives between a home in North London and a Dutch barge on the Isle of Wight.

"Affable, curious, unpretentious, never dull, Hunter is one of the most agreeable egomaniacs I know" Michael Palin "I love Hunter to bits, and he cannot write a boring line" Jilly Cooper "Only Hunter Davies, the sage of the Lake District, could have come up with the worst idea yet for a book - Behind the Scenes at the Museum of Baked Beans. Only Hunter Davies could have made it irresistible and have publishers all over Britain asking themselves why they didn't think of it. Stand by for a rash of clones. Meanwhile, buy it and read it" Michael Grade "This is "show and tell" on a grand scale. The bizarre world of weird and wonderful collections and hoardings laid bare by our own national treasure, Hunter Davies. Delicious" Helena Kennedy "Only Hunter Davies could write a book called Behind the Scenes at the Museum of Baked Beans and only Hunter Davies could make it as entertaining, informative and whimsical as this" Alastair Campbell