Gayle Lazda

Gayle Lazda  is a bookseller at the London Review Bookshop.

From The Blog
24 August 2022

Last September, I went to see Joseph Losey’s The Servant (1963), featuring a mesmeric performance by Bogarde as the brooding manservant Barrett. As Bogarde writes in another context entirely, ‘on such frail threads hang one’s destiny’; a year later, I’m eight volumes of memoir deep, and utterly obsessed.

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