21 APRIL 2007, page 35

Not A Barrel Of Laughs

Sam Leith J OSEPH C ONRAD by Zdzislaw Najder Boydell & Brewer, £25, pp. 808, ISBN 9789571133472 ✆ £20 (plus £2.45 p&p) 0870 429 6655 W hat a peculiar life it was: born in......

Tramps And Bowlers

In the park in front of my place, every night A bunch of tramps sleep on the wooden porch Of the bowling green club-house. They shed no light. No policeman ever wakes them with......