This anthology will inevitably be called a ‘bedside book’ or ‘the perfect bedside book’, but I have to say that I would not want it by me in the small hours. Comfort is dependent on pain. This is a book for a stout heart, an upright chair, a deal table and wide-awake concentration. There are three and a half columns on comfort in the Oxford English Dictionary.
The Man in the Picture
My Name Was Judas
No! I Don’t Want to Join a Bookclub
The Emperor’s Children
Constitutional
Looking for trouble and finding it
Catch Me When I Fall
Changing history with a tenpenny knife
The Assassin
Time Bites
A fusillade from the last ditch
God Has Not Changed
Dirty hands with green fingers
A LITTLE HISTORY OF BRITISH GARDENING
The Lemon Table
Stevenson Under the Palm Trees
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