Friday in the Park with Bertie “Sir Christopher Wren Said, “I am going to dine with some men. If anyone calls Say I am designing St Paul’s.” (Edmund Clerihew Bentley, 1905)
Prenez Garde Primo Levi’s account of the year (1944/45) he was at Auschwitz was published in Britain in 1947 as If This is a Man. I can say no more – I haven’t read it but it is on order.
Windows and a Walk II Downe is close to Biggin Hill and all bar one of the church windows were destroyed in the war.
Pyramus and Thisbe These are the first books written by Nina Willner and Terry Hayes: Forty Autumns published in 2016 and I Am Pilgrim in 2012.
From Melbourne with Love Boodle’s, founded in 1762, is one of the oldest London clubs. White’s, 1693, is easily the oldest and Brooks’s comes a close third, 1764.
The Small Mansion If I was thirty years younger and at least thirty times richer this is where I would live.
Two Secret Lives It is April 1967 and Tony Scotland is working for ABC (in those days the Australian Broadcasting Commission) in Hobart, Tasmania.
On The Shelf The books in Margravine Gardens are mostly in the study, the front bedroom, the kitchen and the back of the sitting room.