Hints and tips:
...For Mona Roughton, San Francisco hippy turned unlikely chatelaine of a Cotswolds pile, the reunion with Michael Tolliver, a pal separated by an ocean and a decade, is joyous....
...Old pal Michael “Mouse” Tolliver (Murray Bartlett) is delighted to see her (“Welcome home, Babycakes!”)...
...Queen of the Night, by Alexander Chee, Michael Joseph, RRP£14.99/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, RRP$28 As sumptuous and operatic as the colourful 19th-century world it describes, this is the story of Lilliet...
...Godfrey’s intricately plotted, tremendously gripping time-travel thriller evokes Michael Crichton at his best....
...Nearly 20 years later, in 2007, a mis-step occurred: Maupin revived the characters in a first-person sequel, Michael Tolliver Lives....
...The title track, a play on words rather than an emotional descriptive, is a warmly-voiced bossa written by trombonist Michael Dease; Charles Tolliver’s “On the Nile” caps the strong set....
...She makes friends with “Mouse” – Michael Tolliver – who has his own set of concerns about his conservative roots....
...It is on this last character that Maupin has concentrated in his latest novel, Michael Tolliver Lives....
...Michael Tolliver Lives By Armistead Maupin Doubleday £17.99, 277 pages FT bookshop price: £14.39 Fans of Tales of the City will enjoy the nostalgia trip as Maupin revisits his characters 20 years on....
...Michael Tolliver’s coming-out letter to his parents in More Tales of the City in 1977....
...In Maupin’s latest book, Michael Tolliver Lives, the hero complains about the small-town politics of some of those who flock to the Castro today....
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