Craig Brown

Chips Channon’s diaries can read like a drunken round of Consequences

Proust, Hitler, Edith Wharton and Tallulah Bankhead join countless random celebrities in the first, unexpurgated volume, edited by Simon Heffer

Chips Channon in 1936. His diary entries often read like a drunken round of Consequences. Credit: Getty Images
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  • Henry ‘Chips’ Channon: The Diaries 1918-38

    Edited by Simon Heffer

    Hutchinson, pp. 1024, £35

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