FREDDIE SIMMONS PUBLISHED his first volume of memoirs at the early age of 39. Last in the Sack Race, a wry and self-deprecatingly humorous account of his misadventures at school, was widely and favourably reviewed, not least by old friends now at large in the world of journalism.
“Mr Simmons”,, “has brought off the by no means easy feat of making a success out of failure.”
