Travel books are by and large boring. They lodge uncomfortably between fact...
Don Quixote's 'Delusions' is an excellent read - far better than my own...
Occasionally I find a travel book that is both illuminating and entertaining...
The Romantic poets were the prototype ramblers and I've often found myself...
I've noticed that my resolutions involve me not doing stuff that I wasn't...
The history of the relationship between comedy and swimming is short indeed....
Ninety-eight per cent of laughter is nothing to do with jokes which do not...
It is more interesting to be compared to someone famous because it lets you...
Reading the play at home however fulfilling can never be the vivacious...
It was Julie Burchill who decreed that beyond a certain age a man should...
There is not much less vexation in the government of a private family than in the managing of an entire state.
