Five Go Back to Blyton
Six years ago, the publishers Hachette took the well-meaning yet preposterous step of making ‘sensitive text revisions’ to Enid Blyton’s…
Whiter than Wight
A young, professional and fundamentally mismatched couple, we had been dating for almost a year when I called things to…
One long moanfest
Tama Janowitz’s memoir is a relentlessly cheerless and bitter collection of vignettes. Between tales of her purportedly miserly, creepy and…
Marriage for one
As far as the bride was concerned, the wedding was perfect. Her dress was beautiful, the vows were traditional and…
What a shower
The fact that we get sun when we expect hail and hail when we expect sun provides those of us…
Left bereft
Dear Jeremy, Please don’t go. I know you’re even more unpopular than the England football team right now — your…
