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“... That brings me back to the question of realism. In Introduction 9 I especially admired Douglas Glover’s prize-winning story ‘Dog Attempts to Drown Man in Saskatoon’. Against a background of fact – a landscape, a harsh climate, a strange accident – the story plays over the various and contradictory interpretations the narrator puts ...”

“... liar and a cheat’. Writing in the Daily Telegraph, one of the Guardian’s main rivals, Stephen Glover, a journalist of rare perspicacity, sets out the familiar ‘one rotten apple’ view: ‘Mr Hamilton appears to me a rather obnoxious little man, but he is just that, a little man, surrounded by other little men who have also received money from Mr Greer ...”

“... groups (bracketing together both LIFE and EXIT) which was made, when he gave evidence, by Sir Douglas Black, President of the Royal College of Physicians. And even criticism of doctors’ decisions was deplored, in a discussion reprinted in World Medicine, by the Secretary of the BMA, Dr John Havard: The ordinary member of the British public has ...”

“... popular Lives (a genre ably parodied by Patrick Barlow’s Shakespeare: The Truth, or, From Glover to Genius, 1993), as well as important work on particular phases or aspects of the Bard’s life by Honigmann, Stanley Wells and others, but Shakespeare: A Life can make some claim to be the first sustained scholarly attempt on its subject since the books ...”

“... and distributed by two young LA-based ‘fringe-of-record-business-hustlers’, Dub Taylor and Ken Douglas, who went on to become major players in the bootleg market. They were wholesaling the records at $4.50 apiece, and they were doing brisk business, only slightly hampered by the fact that neither of them owned a car. In the first few weeks they shifted ...”