A fascinating journey into the spirit and adventure of the sixties by someone who was there, and who, luckily for us, remembered every extraordinary thing. * Esther Freud *
The richness of texture and tone...coupled with the unusual nature of the story...make Memoirs of a Dervish compelling, fascinating and enriching. -- Anthony Sattin * Spectator *
This is a heady, insightful and melancholy trip. -- Ali Catterall * Word *
What emerges here is a tale as fluid and as finally mysterious as the life it recounts...Here, at last, Irwin may have found a truly perennial philosophy. -- John Gray * New Statesman *
Packed with extraordinary characters and incidents as well as (this being the sixties) a generous helping of drugs, sex and rock 'n' roll. * London Review Bookshop *
Irwin's witty, casually erudite tribute to his clever, naive youth shows that there are no shortcuts to wisdom. But if often comes with age. -- Steve Jelbert * Independent on Sunday *
Memoirs of a Dervish - charged with life, humanity and humour - opens one's eyes to possibilities, which was what the 1960s vibe was about, after all. * Financial Times *
I could not put down Memoirs of a Dervish until I had read it twice over. This is a brilliant, free-ranging, mind-enhancing, life-cautioning book. Beware. -- Barnaby Rogerson * The Independent *
Robert Irwin's memoir is a fabulously entertaining tale. * The Metro *
Irwin brilliantly conjures up the mood of the late Sixties, with its blind innocence, fanciful enthusiasms and blissful music...For the reader, the journey - and the fall - is an illuminating and immensely engrossing one. -- Mick Brown * Literary Review *
An extraordinary book. * Conde Nast Traveller *