At New Year's He Had Given Anne

When I Began To Read As An Adult, I Read Almost Exclusively Novelists Of A Generation Back. I Did The Russians, Then I Started Getting More Up To Date. When You Become Published And Become A Reviewer, Piles Of Books Come Along And You Are Pushed By Fashion And What You Are Commissioned To Do.

I Would Have Been A Disaster As A Career Politician. I Would Never Have Toed A Party Line.

[margaret Thatcher] Scorned And Despised Other Women, And Predicated Her Values Entirely On The Values Of Her Father, A Small Town Shopkeeper.

Beneath Every History, Another History.

History Is A Set Of Skills Rather Than A Narrative.