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Low life

Praise, insults, posh gin – and other perils of the book launch

When I’m feeling forward, I can take praise all day; when I’m feeling reticent I recoil in horror

4 July 2015

9:00 AM

4 July 2015

9:00 AM

Rachel Johnson, in last week’s Spectator diary, says that her husband says she only writes a book in order to have a launch party. Me too. My thoughts are too disordered to write a book from scratch, but now and then someone offers to publish a collection of these columns and I, fantasising about a party with all my pals there, agree to it.

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