Norman Lewis was the best not-famous writer of his generation. A pharmacist's son from Enfield, Lewis became unmatched as a witness to his times. This biography offers a view of a suburban fugitive and adventurer; an incomparable witness; and a writer of unsurpassed humour, wisdom and compassion for the ridiculous.

He raced Bugattis before the war, lived in Ibiza after it, and was a crack shot, flamboyant host, and businessman with mafia connections, leading a life of such self-pleasing hedonism that his existence at times was closer to a rock star's than anyone else's.Published to mark Norman Lewis' centenary, Julian Evans' "Semi-invisible Man" is a fascinating view of a suburban fugitive and adventurer; an incomparable witness; a writer of unsurpassed humour, wisdom and compassion for the ridiculous. It is a biography that aims to send its readers hurrying to the books of an overlooked master.