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“... Perhaps Alberti visited a printing shop and saw the pressmen at work. Dati certainly did. As Martin Davies pointed out long ago, the Bibliothèque nationale de France owns a copy of Augustine’s City of God, printed by Sweynheym and Pannartz in Subiaco in 1467. Dati bought it, as he recorded in the book, ‘from the Germans themselves, living in ...”

“... cynicism, of formidable cruelty.’ This is one of the rare moments when the translator Martin McLaughlin’s careful devotion to idiom and fluency lets him down. Nabokov was one of ‘the authors of these years’, but he wasn’t, in 1984, a ‘living author’, as McLaughlin calls him. The only other slip ...”

“... a different approach. They deal in euphemism, and everybody understands them too. Gerry Adams, Martin McGuinness and Mitchell McLaughlin love the phrase ‘the peace process’ and they use it over and over again. In Northern Ireland, if you ignore the punishment beatings, peace has broken out. To keep calling it a ...”

“... party or continue as a front for the IRA. Ignoring renewed protestations from Gerry Adams and Martin McGuinness that Sinn Fein is separate from the IRA, that it is a political party with a democratic mandate from its voters, most politicians and observers have, like Major himself, accepted almost without question the Unionist formulation: Sinn ...”

“... McConville had been shot once in the back of the head. In 2005, the Sinn Féin chairman, Mitchel McLaughlin, claimed during a television debate that although McConville’s death was ‘wrong’, it was not a crime because it happened ‘in the context of conflict’ and the IRA believed she was an informer. In 2006 the police ombudsman upheld the McConville ...”