I do quite want to go to Chelsea

Anna Goodall explores an area rich in literary history

‘O, wind, If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind?’*

When is a room not a room?

When it’s the Colony Room, of course! Sophie Parkin celebrates the sixtieth birthday of the infamous members’ club

Abney Park N16

A Dangerous Man

A Day at the Races (or, what Jeffrey Bernard did when he wasn’t at the Colony Room)

Michael Spring considers Bernard’s lifelong relationship with the world of horse racing

Oliver

Coffee and Peaches

Original Features

Stoned

Nobody Inn

For Nick Hodgson and Anna Goodall

Movie Victim (a flashback)

An Oarsman’s Lament

Surf-Side: When Not at the Laundromat

For Magritte (on a rainy day)

View from the Malvern Hills

Silenus

The Rise and Fall of the Working Class Male

Snow

Orhan Pamuk
Faber & Faber, 2005

The Case of the Moth-Eaten Mink

Erle Stanley Gardner
Pan Books, 1968

Sir Charles Maxwell-House finds a brand new medium for his ramblings!

Penguin Pusher

Bookmongers