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“... and Russia have always been at odds is a peculiar one, though current events give it extra appeal. Barbara Emerson’s book is weakest in considering the one point of real comparison between the mid-19th-century global order and the post-1945 one. During both periods, the greatest differences between Britain and Russia were not geopolitical but ...”

“... for instance, that worked Evelyn Waugh up to his refugee-in-America satire, The Loved One. Sally Emerson’s The Listeners shapes up as if it is going to be a rather conventional and thoroughly English novel of the kind Malcolm Bradbury describes as chronicling the female orgasm in Hampstead for female readers in Hampstead. The heroine, Jennifer Hamilton ...”

“... or searcher of God knows what, had it all together awhile back and can go any kind of way.’ Even Emerson, who believed the true American artist constantly evades all attempts made to impose a reductive system on his imagination, would have been impressed. Given the intense scrutiny to which Dylan’s life has already been subjected, it’s unsurprising that ...”

“... closed down!’ Clearly, he enjoyed his bit of strip-tease: witness this short letter to Gloria Emerson: ‘Thank you so much for your postcard from Los Angeles, that sink of iniquity, where I once had a very good Chinese meal and accompanied that fat actor Robert Morley to the equivalent in those days of strip-tease.’ Time is limited; I could happily ...”

“... Rosewall, 18-year-old prodigies in the Fifties, but also Neale Fraser, Mal Anderson, Laver, Roy Emerson, John Newcombe and Fred Stolle (plus lesser stars like Don Candy and Bob Howe). I wanted to know more about South African tennis during apartheid, which gave rise to Sturgess, Gordon and Jean (his sister) Forbes, plus the colourful Abe Segal, and fine ...”

“... an idler.’ He proved his mettle selling guidebooks door to door. The couple honeymooned in Santa Barbara, where they attended a lecture at the Theosophist school and another by Tagore, whose ‘wide-hooved’ and bovine nobility reminded Thayer of ‘pregnant women waiting their time’. Within a year, Thayer had come to see Elaine not as the ‘virgin of ...”

“... Airplane, Miles Davis, Candy Darling, Janis Joplin. Among other things. ‘One night I did Eric Emerson, upstairs … in the phone booth. My one-hour stand with a master of the game.’ Another night, she met a rich man who took her to California, where he bought her Gucci dresses and put her up in the Hotel Bel-Air. She stuck it out for a month before ...”