The coming spectacle of a Conservative Iron Lady armed with a vast majority built from nostalgia and fear has lured me back to Alan Hollingurst’s novel The Line of Beauty, a prize-winning tale of gay […]
Foreign secretary Boris Johnson, London’s mayor until last May, is sometimes described as an opportunist Brexiter – a man who picked his side in the referendum campaign according to which would best serve his prospects of advancement. […]
The BBC recently adapted veteran spy novelist (and cookery writer) Len Deighton’s 1978 novel SS-GB. That is one reason why I’ve stared reading it. The other is that a man at a London Society event last […]
When in need of a bit of history to illustrate a point – and, of course, create the false impression of being terribly well read – I often reach for the books of Jerry White. […]
Boris Johnson, always keen to look on the bright side, has again been insisting that the UK will get a Brexit deal with the European Union but will be absolutely fine if it does not. […]
On Thursday, in a corner of an office in Brewhouse Yard, three people talked about “writing London”. The event, organised by the London Society, featured three panellists: Tom Bolton, author of London’s Lost Rivers – A […]
People from across London and around the globe have been sharing their dismay that one of the capital’s most treasured bookshops has announced that it will close. The Samuel French Theatre Bookshop on Fitzroy Street, just […]
Jonathan Raban’s book Soft City was first published in 1974, and much of it describes London. The blurb of the 1988 edition, which I bought and still own, characterises it as capturing a city of the […]
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