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“... are, only too clearly, made of the fallible and irrational stuff that we recognise in ourselves. Ian Patterson, thinking of Ngaio Marsh’s novels, noted that ‘when we’re reading a detective story, our anxious, paranoid curiosity is directed towards discovering why someone else has died. The body in the library is never our own.’* This is ...”

“... Watson’s poodle dialectics. After all, it was the not notably socialist Ackroyd who (along with Ian Patterson and Nick Totton) published the first bulletin from the Zappa papers in 1979: stapled small press format. It’s a breeze for Watson to present himself as a schizoid, high-Culture virtuoso who is dedicating years of his life (risking his ...”

“... like any work of genius. (Like, say, Muhammad Ali. Should he have taunted Ernie Terrell and Floyd Patterson in the way he did? No. But would he have been great if he hadn’t?) Of course people don’t like to admit this, but most literature is only ever a kind of goading or complaint or a two-fingered salute, a plea for what Eggers calls ‘some extra ...”

“... girl on the cover, but the magazine is actually quite gay, at least in the sense that the late Ian Hamilton used the term. Hamilton thought it was gay to look left and right when you crossed the road, and he thought it was gay for men to blow-dry their hair. This went on for a while until one day he made the point to Martin Amis that it was actually quite ...”

“... effused one settler, ‘has ever left me with the impression of being a “whiter” man.’ Ian Smith’s Selous Scouts sustained his legend. Tidrick, however, can show that this model Rugbcian lied in order to promote the cause of white settlement and empire. In 1889 he stated, with bald falsehood, in the London press, that the high plateau of ...”