Openly reticent
Jonathan Coe, 9 November 1989
Grand Inquisitor: Memoirs
by Robin Day.
Weidenfeld, 296 pp., £14.95, October 1989,0 297 79660 7 Show More
by Robin Day.
Weidenfeld, 296 pp., £14.95, October 1989,
Storm over 4: A Personal Account
by Jeremy Isaacs.
Weidenfeld, 215 pp., £14.95, September 1989,0 297 79538 4 Show More
by Jeremy Isaacs.
Weidenfeld, 215 pp., £14.95, September 1989,
“... There comes a time in the lives of most public figures, it seems, when the exhortation of agents and publishers becomes too much to resist and there is nothing for it but to start writing books about themselves. In the case of Robin Day (Sir Robin, I suppose, if one is not to repeat Mrs Thatcher’s famous gaffe) that time has come at the age of 68; in the case of Kenneth Branagh, at the age of 28 ... ”