A Kind of Greek
Jeremy Harding: Frank Thompson, 7 March 2013
A Very English Hero: The Making of Frank Thompson
by Peter Conradi.
Bloomsbury, 419 pp., £18.99, August 2012,978 1 4088 0243 4 Show More
by Peter Conradi.
Bloomsbury, 419 pp., £18.99, August 2012,
“... and writing a string of books about the subcontinent. The first was a ‘life and work’ of Rabindranath Tagore, one of several eminent family friends, who also included Nehru.* There is a wonderful photo of Gandhi in the Thompsons’ garden at Boars Hill in 1931: a photographer in a Calcutta studio might have unfurled a backdrop labelled ... ”
