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“... of the ‘Hiroshima Maidens’ whose story has prompted two good books. My quotation comes from Rodney Barker’s. In 1955 a group of young Japanese women, most of whom had been schoolgirls when the bomb dropped, all of them badly disfigured by the explosion, were taken to New York for reconstructive plastic surgery. ...”

“... been one of its major causes. The next government to attempt a poll tax was Thatcher’s. Juliet Barker has written a splendid account of the events of 1381 and their wider context, enlivened with many arresting anecdotes. There is the rebel who ran his sword into the royal bed in the Tower of London, saying he would like to do the same to the traitors ...”

“... prose and verse. Once while living in Kennington he met two Oxford undergraduates, Jack Clark and Rodney Philips, who were interested in poetry: they ‘were in some disbelief that close to the Clark family house could actually reside a contributor to New Writing, as, in a way that now seems baffling, had been reported to them’. That sentence, with its ...”