GEOFF NICHOLSON: THE LONG LOST WALKER

I’ve been reading a rather good book titled  A Spy’s London,  by Roy Berkeley.  It’s a sort of travel book and walking guide, complete with...

First: John Hayward (who was wheelchair-bound because of muscular dystrophy, and who was known, not always affectionately, as Tarantula) ta...

I just read Claire Messud’s The Woman Upstairs .   My agent recommended it to me.   She said it just kind of drifts along fo...