‘This book … should bring delight to many, sell tons and keep as many ex-wives as any of us could wish for in scones and jam.’
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John Sutherland and Stephen Fender’s Love, Sex, Death and Words is reviewed in the Spectator.
‘It’s a smart idea, well executed.’ says reviewer Sam Leith. ‘Its prime virtue is the dense agglomeration of trivia around even well-known events. Yukio Mishima’s suicide (25 November 1970) is an obvious enough date to include — but how funny to record Private Eye’s response, which was to publish a picture of Kingsley Amis under the headline ‘Famous British Novelist Commits Public Suicide by Drinking Himself to Death’.’
