Ann Fleming
The last of the great salonnières
At her house in Westminster, Lady Pamela Berry, deb and it girl and then wife of Daily Telegraph proprietor Lord Hartwell, gathered parliamentarians, writers, aristocrats and wits
Scent and smoke and sweat
The world would never be quite the same again after we first glimpsed the casino of Royale-les-Eaux at three in the morning, says Philip Hensher
‘He couldn’t help being a bit surreal’
Love him or loathe him, Lucian Freud was a maverick genius whose life from the off was as singular as…
The colonel and the commander
Between the brothers Peter and Ian Fleming, Fionn Morgan wonders who was the better writer and who the better man
Disciplined exoticism
Lewis Jones on Ian Fleming’s Jamaican retreat and the inspiration it provided for the Bond novels
Letters
Papal blessing Sir: In his excellent article on Pope Francis (‘Pope idol’, 11 January), Luke Coppen mentions the satirical rumour…
