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All good things must come to an end. There will be no more adventures of Flashman. His creator, George MacDonald Fraser, has died of cancer at the age of 82. The late, unlamented British empire has lost its funniest chronicler. There can be few more entertaining accounts of the British empire during the reign of
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I just came across this poem about a Mac (it had to be a Mac) but it could apply to a PC too. Anyone who blogs, surfs the Internet or is otherwise hopelessly addicted to computers will be able to identify with this poem. We can’t do without our computers. Trust a poet to articulate
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Breakfast at Tiffany’s by Truman Capote Anyone who has dreams, and seen some dreams die, should read Breakfast at Tiffany’s. He or she will empathise with Holly Golightly like her real friends, who — to a man — are her silent lovers. Like the author himself. This is a love story told by the silent
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Indira: The Life of Indira Nehru Gandhi by Katherine Graham I just finished reading Katherine Frank’s biography of Indira Gandhi, Indira Gandhi was undoubtedly popular for a long time. Spirited, courageous, cultured, artistic, she had many admirable qualities. But I wouldn’t want her back as a leader. Nor her father, Jawaharlal Nehru. He might not have
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All working Singaporeans aged up to 50 will have to buy annuities. The government fears they might otherwise run out of savings as people live longer now. But that’s a risk that could have been avoided in another way. The government could have lifted the tobacco tax. Perish the thought and long live the people?
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All The King’s Men by Robert Penn Warren The New York Times called it: “The definitive novel about American politics.” It is seen as a roman a clef, whose hero, Willie Stark, is said to have been based on the Louisiana governor and Senator Huey Long. But I would call All The King’s Men, which
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Saturday by Ian McEwan Seldom have I read a better book. It’s about a day in a man’s life. Forty-eight-year-old neurosurgeon Henry Perowne wakes up in the middle of the night in his posh London home, sees a plane in the sky and fears it is going down in flames. But there’s nothing he can
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The Shadow Of The Great Game: The Untold Story Of India’s Partition by Narendra Singh Sarila Tony Blair had to go because his Iraq policy proved deeply unpopular. We have read how Britons disapprove of their military presence in Iraq. But he was only pursuing traditional British policy. The Middle East matters so much to
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The Ruling Caste by David Gilmour Now their stories are being told. Empire’s Children, about Britons who spent part of their childhood in the colonies, is being shown on Channel 4, I read in a newspaper. It interviewed actress Diana Rigg, who is part of the story. Her father was a railway official in an
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Cold Is The Grave by Peter RobinsonPresumed Innocent by Scott Turow I just finished reading Cold Is The Grave by Peter Robinson and Presumed Innocent by Scott Turow. Both are whodunits though the latter is a courtroom drama as well. Robinson is English and Turow, American. Reading them reminded me how much British crime fiction
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