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Ian Jack: David Astor, 2 June 2016
David Astor: A Life in Print
by Jeremy Lewis.
Cape, 400 pp., £25, March 2016,978 0 224 09090 2 Show More
by Jeremy Lewis.
Cape, 400 pp., £25, March 2016,
“... he didn’t find gifted or amusing enough. Among the first of the non-plumbers to arrive was Patrick O’Donovan, a red-faced, hard-living Irishman (Ampleforth, Christ Church and war service with the Irish Guards) who came on the recommendation of the diplomat Nico Henderson. He had never published a word in his life, but within a few years had acquired ... ”