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“... The Chesterfieldian masque(?) which should be discarded only at times of acute crisis. He [Bertie Denham] seemed pretty tight, but the Upper Classes remember what they hear and say when they were tight. The only other character given heavy billing today is that ambitious creep, War(sic) grave. Bumboy drivers in nasty little Alfa Romeo sedans took ...”

“... to listen to the Kaiser briefing his spies. The authentic upper-class milieu is better conveyed in Bertie Denham’s Two Thyrds. This book again involves a traitor and spans two generations from the Second World War to the present day. The author, who is the Conservative chief whip in the House of Lords, really knows how the upper classes talk and, as a ...”