Hints and tips:
...There is a snobbish letter in Toby Faber’s book from John Sparrow, warden of All Souls, writing about Charles Monteith and his “real keenness about present day literature and knowledge of it and flair for...
...Italian Lakes, by Steven Desmond and Marianne Majerus, Francis Lincoln, RRP£35 Pliny the Younger had two villas around the Italian Lakes, and a host of literati from Goethe to Shelley, Wharton to Joyce, Byron...
...Paul Watson and Franc Roddam’s The Family (1974) emphasised the down-to-earth ordinariness of its participants, the Wilkins family of Reading....
...In 2007 Mr Watson’s own DNA analysis revealed he had enough “African genes” to have had one African great-grandparent. Ultimately, as Mr Watson found, the charting of your DNA is humbling....
...These are deep waters, Watson! Markovits is a subtle, delicate writer who is at his best in dealing with ambiguities and ambivalences of human relationships....
...Clare seems almost sane, before fevered raptures give way to delusions that he is, by turns, Lord Byron, a prizefighter and Admiral Nelson....
...Unsurprisingly, they all have plenty to say about Henry Watson Fowler’s A Dictionary of Modern English Usage....
...Mr Watson has pledged to write to Mr Burnham at the end of the week with the responses....
...Nevertheless, as I set out for a snorkel with Julie Thatcher, senior wildlife trust warden at Kimmeridge, I am prepared for disappointment....
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