William Cook

Never a dull sentence: the journalism of Harry Perry Robinson

Whether covering the Great War or the Tutankhamun expedition, the star Times reporter always electrified his readers, says Joseph McAleer

Harry Perry Robinson
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  • Escape Artist: The Nine Lives of Harry Perry Robinson

    Joseph McAleer

    OUP, pp. 356, £20

Is Boris Johnson a fan of Harry Perry Robinson? If he isn’t, he really ought to be. Reading this absorbing biography, I was struck by how much they have in common — especially in their early lives. Both men went to public school, then on to Oxford, then into journalism, where they proved incapable of writing a dull sentence.

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