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“... trade, has developed so much that a new account of his life and work would be extremely useful. If Helen Braithwaite’s book, excellent in its way, isn’t quite it, that’s mainly because Johnson’s interests were so extensive, in a range of areas about which so much more is known than before, that it would take a publisher as generous as Johnson ...”

“... in 1938, accompanied by other alcoholic tramps, including a well-educated and musical woman called Helen and a weak, grey-haired man called Rudy, who claims to be half-Cherokee – but Francis, who bullies Rudy in a protective way, tells him his mother was only a Mex: ‘That’s why you got them high cheekbones. Indian I don’t buy.’ William Kennedy tells ...”

“... their GCSEs. One of his friends had a disagreement with some men in a bar; one of the men, Jade Braithwaite, and two others, Juress Kika and Michael Alleyne, who came later, attacked Kinsella’s group as they left the bar. What happened was described when Kika unsuccessfully took his case to appeal: Kinsella, the judges said, offered not a shred of ...”