Cover -- Title page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Introduction -- Part One: Miscellaneous Articles -- Earliest Memories -- Blue Remembered Frills -- Years of Innocence -- War -- A Night to Remember -- France -- The Pond -- Impressions in the Sand --...
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Cover -- Title page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Introduction -- Part One: Miscellaneous Articles -- Earliest Memories -- Blue Remembered Frills -- Years of Innocence -- War -- A Night to Remember -- France -- The Pond -- Impressions in the Sand -- Return to London -- A Short Walk from Harrods -- Cricket Season -- My Favourite Bookshop John Sandoe, London -- Radio 4: Britain's Vital Lifeline -- A Big Issue -- The Right to Die with Dignity -- The Old are Funnier and Wiser -- Back to Work -- The End of a Long Breather -- An Orderly Man Returns to the Pin-Spot -- Wrecked By Two Arduous Days' Reading -- Some Special Relationships -- The Lifebelt of Gentle Praise -- The Look That Says Rampling -- A Genius in Love with Vulgarity -- With Thanks to 'Thumper' -- Non! Non! Non! -- A Glowing Friendship -- A Lifetime's Love for Cinema -- The Writer -- A Book That Changed Me -- A Sentimental Education -- Books Are Better -- Part Two: Reviews -- Introduction -- Trivia's Jackdaw -- Venomous Pen -- Bed for Art's Sake -- Efric Spice -- Sweet Vapours -- Out of the Shadows of Hell -- Book of the Year, 29 November 1988 -- A Sea Elephant in Mink -- Recording Every Wrinkle -- The Crushing Life of a Bloomsberry -- The Way We Were -- One and Only -- The Rum Mister Goldfish -- The Blazing Radiator -- Book of the Year, 25 November 1989 -- In Pursuit of Sticklebacks -- Dust and DéjàVu -- When Screen Fame Wears a Jealous Face -- American Thirst -- The Mountain and the Magician -- Book of the Year, 24 November 1990 -- Sliding Quietly into the Shadows -- Byron Caught in His Curlers -- Letters with Flavour to Savour -- Falling for a Pine Spell -- From the Gut of the Land -- How Could Such Hatred Exist? -- No Answer to the Sorrow and the Pity -- Upon My Tisket! -- A Companionable Lizard -- Slack-Jaw'd at the Nodding Daffodils -- Book of the Year, 23 November 1991 Precious Little Compassion -- The Danger of a Nation Flexing Confident Muscle -- Burned Deep into the Soul -- Father to Society's Little Grey Mice -- Strike Me Pink! -- Return of the Dreaded V-3s -- A Sprig Enfolded in Tendrils of Love -- Strength of a Collared Cheetah -- Chewing Over Table Manners -- Soggy, Breathy, Chubby -- Book of the Year, 25 November 1992 -- No Marx Masses for Him -- Move off My Runway -- Book of the Year, 27 November 1993 -- Our City of Little Splendours -- I am Right, You are Wrong! -- All Rage, All Tenderness, All Wit -- Top Brass Outwitted by Army Wife -- Book of the Year, 25 November 1994 -- Book of the Year, 25 November 1995 -- Book of the Year, 30 November 1996 -- Book of the Year, 22 November 1997 -- A Note on the Author -- Also by the Author -- eCopyright
