A tiny room, furnished in early MFI, of which every surface was covered in china ornaments and plaster knick-knacks whose only virtue was that they were small, and therefore of limited individual horr...
He had nothing against cherry tomatoes except that any attempt to cut them shot them off the plate with a velocity that could lay out a gemsbok at fifty paces, and putting them in the mouth whole and...
The very least one requires for civilisation to survive is an adequate supply of sound wines.
Schmoozes the customers, brings light and warmth to the
Somewhere, waiting for you. Nothing is ever lost.
One of the great benefits of being married is always having someone to tie one's tie.
Of course one has to give diplomacy a chance, but it would be better for us, if we are going to have to fight them, for the Cabinet to start now before the Boers are ready for us.’ ‘Well, public opini...
Nation will rise against nation and kingdom against kingdom .... These are the beginnings of sorrows.
But the living must fear death, or they would not struggle to stay alive. from 'The Fallen Kings.
One of the early reasons for Atherton's devotion to Slider had been that Slider had never, from the first meeting, looked at him askance. Slider had his countryman father's view that God had made all...
Mum always ought to be, getting tea. Women and food: how they locked on to your heart, taking it so young that if you had ever been properly loved and nurtured, you could never quite untangle them aga...
Instead, the Daily Mail’s editor picked out only the ‘brightest’ items of news, digested them, and rewrote them so as to turn them into ‘stories’. These always had to be short, strongly prejudiced in...
Father Ramsay smiled his sphingine smile. ‘You know my opinion of buttermilk,’ he said. ‘I’ll wait for the ale.
Crafty Collins took up with him. You wouldn’t have thought they had a thing in common. I mean, Crafty, he had enough upstairs. He wasn’t stupid by many a long mile. But this Bates bloke, he was colleg...
She ate up London and spat it out, and now she’s recharging her batteries in Bursford before going back into the fray,’ Jack said.
Asquith, in the House, had shocked many people by opposing the franchise for women on the grounds that woman was not the female of the human species but a distinct and inferior species of her own, and...
But the living must fear death, or they would not struggle to stay alive.
The former Mary Loveday was a thin woman in whose face any youthful beauty she may have possessed had been extinguished by years and unhappiness. There were unbecoming shadows around her eyes, two lin...
I could refer you to a colleague who specialises in such things – or, as it happens, a clinic has just opened in Holloway to advise on birth control and dispense devices. You might find that more anon...
Joanna had the fisherman's pie. 'What's under the mashed potato?' Slider asked. Joanna chewed thoughtfully for a moment and then looked down. 'Something white,' she said at last. 'With little bits of...