Fishing for Souls JF Powers’ only novel, Morte d’Urban, won the 1963 National Book Award for Fiction.
Church Lit A conscientious author would conclude such an enormous subject can only be done justice in two volumes and then by just touching on the important bits.
Hot Water and Nazi Coffee Cutting energy bills has become an obsession in the UK and no doubt elsewhere.
Gilts and Consols I’d never heard of Liability-driven Investing (LDI) until it drove Defined Benefit (DB) pensions in the UK to the brink of insolvency.
Memories Memories, as Grizabella might have purred huskily in Cats, are not so much forgotten as mislaid.
Brazil Nuts Next year I hope to go on another election mission as an observer. This year, last Sunday, an election came to me.