Articles...
Sep 26 2007
THERE was anger in the air and the clerk’s son inhaled deeply, becoming one of the working-class writers who dragged the novel from suburban lawns and tennis clubs to backs streets and factories....
Sep 25 2007
TO BE the ghost of King Zog of Albania was a strange role, but the writer, who had once sung the Lord is My Shepherd with Lord Beaverbrook, was not inclined to turn down challenging commissions....
Sep 24 2007
ECCENTRIC religious opinions, including his belief that his son, who had been killed in a landslide, was Christ on His second coming, hindered the glamorous man’s quest to be accepted as one of the world’s greatest explorers....
Sep 21 2007
IF A guitar-strumming minst-rel, with a hint of smoked haddock on his whiskers, was the father of an Abyssin- ian wire-haired trip hound, you might hazard the guess that he would not by calling have joined the weights and measurements department on the local council....
Sep 20 2007
IT’S a tricky business. Some people write great tomes and die almost forgotten. Others offer a few words and achieve a kind of immortality....
Sep 19 2007
SOME people achieve a high place in the folk memory through steady achievement. Others do it with a single triumph – a song, a novel, an invention....
Sep 18 2007
IT WAS totally unexpected. Most people accepted that the old country had gone soft on pop music, soap operas and junk food....
Sep 17 2007
BEES in their infinite and fascinating variety had been the life of the nuclear physicist since she and her groom were given a working hive to celebrate their nuptials....
Sep 13 2007
ABOUT 43 years ago, every girl christened Juliet could expect the classroom Romeo to lean over her desk and sing in plaintive style, “There was a love I knew before, she broke my heart, left me unsure – Jooooleeee-eh-eh-et”....
Sep 12 2007
THERE was perhaps a hint of the dippy-hippy in her long, bushy hair and the wisely quizzical brown-eyed stare, but behind the toothy smile lay determination, ambition and rare honesty....
