”Destroying the painting was out of the question: my soul is all stained and shagged with sin like a cigarette smoker’s moustache but I am quite incapable of destroying works of art. Steal them, yes, cheerfully, it is a mark of respect and love, but destroy them, never. Why even the Woosters had ...
Kyril Bonfiglioli is a sad loss to works of fiction. His way of telling a story is absolutely without fault. Sadly he died whilst still writing this one, so no more Mortdecai books are to come. Sad face.As always the end of the story is a bit (well quite a lot actually) on the rubbish side, but a...
For instance, although I hate champagne cocktails, I always accept a couple from one particular mistress because a champagne cocktail, as anyone will tell you, gets to you where you live very fast and two such drinks enable me to ignore the grotesque schnozzle with which this particular lady has ...