First find your clique …

Whatever one’s attachment to noble causes, it’s more fun to write for the right-wing press

NO ONE WHO HAS laboured for any time in what the Victorian novelist George Gissing used to call “the valley of the shadow of books” can have failed to be amused by A.N. Wilson’s recently published memoir. But you suspect that the amusement will have been two-fold — provoked, naturally, by the book itself, but also by its reception down on the Grub Street front line. As for the contents of Confessions: A Life of Failed Promises (Bloomsbury £20), “Ann”, as Craig Brown once christened him in his “Wallace Arnold” days, is as waspish at 72 as he was at 30 (he is also, as experienced Wilson-watchers have noted, surprisingly vague about some of the chronological details of his own life.) The media coverage, meanwhile, has rolled in from an…

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The Critic (Digital) - 1 Issue, November 2022

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