“I am 54 and age is slowly writing itself on my face.”
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It was Julie Burchill who decreed that, beyond a certain age, a man should not be seen in a leather jacket.
Reading the play at home, however fulfilling, can never be the vivacious experience that Shakespeare intended.
Travel books are, by and large, boring. They lodge uncomfortably between fact, fiction and autobiography.
Occasionally I find a travel book that is both illuminating and entertaining, where vivid writing and research replace self-indulgence and sloppy prose.
