It was seven in the evening at the Royal Geographical Society. It was warm, dark and I had stepped off a transatlantic flight at lunchtime. I was rudely aware of someone hitting my arm. I awoke to find five hundred people, including a pissed-off speaker, staring at me - and my mobile phone that was going off like an air-raid klaxon.
Bad moment.
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Cruelty and fish
For the most part, the farming of animals in the developed world is reasonably humane - outside the horrors of factory farming. An out-and...
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The Exumas
The Exumas, in the Bahamas, extend for over a hundred and fifty miles and consist of over three hundred and fifty small islands lying like a...
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John le Carre
Some writers are feted in their own era and then fall into obscurity while others write in a vacuum and are lionised when it is too late for...
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The Daily Telegraph
I was cold-called recently by someone from the Daily Telegraph asking me about my newspaper habits. My initial answer was that as far as hab...
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Vichy France
There were lots of things that I learned about France when I was writing Silent Night. Some were facts that I did not know before that gave ...
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Wallis Simpson and the Abdication
I went to a small literary festival yesterday and heard Juliet Nicholson talking about her book on 1936, the ‘year of three kings.’ In it sh...
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