A time of gifts
This review of the third part of Travellers’ century by the always entertaining TV critic Nancy Banks-Smith deftly sketches the charismatic character and life of Patrick Leigh Fermor (although it isn’t true that he wrote A time of gifts and Between the woods and the water entirely from memory fifty years after the journey across [...]
Eight pictures
Hurrah! Alistair’s back in action here in a nostalgic, fictional vein and here, where he’s set me a task. As this might to some extent help to unmask the shadowy figure variously known as A jumped-up pantry boy and A wild, slim alien, I accept the challenge. I’ve to set down ‘8 things people don’t [...]
