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“... of what’s left of ancient Rotherhithe’. He stalked twilight zones, dowsing for echoes of Conan Doyle, Arthur Machen and Thomas De Quincey. We are commuters, he wrote, ‘struck by a quarantine whose extent escapes our measuring instruments’. After wartime displacement to Bordeaux, and the horrors of ...”

“... Jessie Conrad remembered his visit: Sir Roger Casement, a fanatical Irish protestant, came to see us, remaining some two days our guest. He was a very handsome man with a thick, dark beard and piercing, restless eyes. His personality impressed me greatly. It was about the time when he was interested in bringing to light certain atrocities which were taking place in the Belgian Congo ...”

“... These words draw on The Governour by another ancestral namesake, the early 16th-century Sir Thomas Elyot, though by that time for Eliot, who had separated from his wife, Vivien, in 1933, they carried a lash of irony. The names that mattered most in Eliot’s early poems were the names of people. Yet as his work developed, particularly in his ...”

“... keeping the lights on in London.’ The mania​ for boreholes reminded me of a cautionary tale by Arthur ConanDoyle, ‘When the World Screamed’. Doyle’s crazed superman scientist, Professor Challenger, who would now be seen a natural performer for the television age, Patrick ...”