Monsieur Mangetout
Walter Nash, 7 December 1989
The Guinness Book of Records 1990
edited by Donald McFarlan.
Guinness, 320 pp., £10.95, October 1989,0 85112 341 4 Show More
edited by Donald McFarlan.
Guinness, 320 pp., £10.95, October 1989,
The Chatto Book of Cabbages and Kings: Lists in Literature
edited by Francis Spufford.
Chatto, 313 pp., £13.95, November 1989,0 7011 3487 9 Show More
edited by Francis Spufford.
Chatto, 313 pp., £13.95, November 1989,
“... The other Sunday, as I was taking my weekly televisual fix of gridiron football – not so much an athletic spectacle as an entrancing reconstruction of the wars of Pompey the Great – I learned that one of the luminaries of the sport (the particular name escapes me) had been accorded the title of the winningest coach of some recent season (the exact year eludes me ... ”
