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Craig Revel Horwood didn’t want to be a judge on Strictly Come Dancing, the show that has made him a star. He didn’t even want to go to the audition. ‘I said to my manager, “I’m not interested. What is it? Celebrities dancing with professionals? It’s going to be pathetic. Awful. Car-crash television. I really … Read more
Trains, Planes, Ships & Cars: The Golden Age 1900-1941 James Hamilton-Paterson Head of Zeus £30 Rating: Ah, the Golden Age of Travel! This is not a book to be read while you are standing cooped-up on a crowded staircase for ten minutes as part of Ryanair’s ‘Priority Boarding’. In James Hamilton-Paterson’s judgment, the Golden Age … Read more
The Language Of Birds Jill Dawson Sceptre £18.99 Rating: Shortly before her death in January 1976, Agatha Christie voiced a question that was on many people’s lips. ‘I wonder what HAS happened to Lord Lucan?’ A little over a year before, a 29-year-old woman, Sandra Rivett, had been bludgeoned to death in the basement of … Read more