In this issue Patrick Welland joins the British Council • Jacqueline Wilson puts on her ballet shoes • Michael Barber looks back with gratitude • Miranda Seymour relishes the twilight hour • Christopher Rush agrees ’tis better to have loved and lost • Sue Gee enjoys life without handlebars • Anthony Longden suffers with Lord Alanbrooke • Linda Leatherbarrow remembers Penelope Fitzgerald • Sue Gaisford hears the sound of chariots • Tim Mackintosh-Smith puts a tyger in his tank • Ysenda Maxtone Graham finds time for rhyme, and much more besides . . . Adrift on the Tides of War • PATRICK WELLAND Olivia Manning’s Balkan trilogy Hands off the Handlebars • SUE GEE Roald Dahl, Boy One of the Regulars • LINDA LEATHERBARROW Penelope Fitzgerald, The Means of Escape ’Tis Better to Have Loved and Lost? • CHRISTOPHER RUSH Alfred, Lord Tennyson, In Memoriam The Sound of Chariots • SUE GAISFORD The Roman Britain novels of Rosemary Sutcliff Porridge and the Shorter Catechism • MORAG MACINNES F. M. McNeill, The Scots Kitchen Challenging the Old Gang • MICHAEL BARBER Noel Annan, Our Age Hauntings • MICHÈLE ROBERTS Dorothy L. Sayers, Gaudy Night Hitting the Nail on the Head • YSENDA MAXTONE GRAHAM The poetry of Jan Struther The Twilight Hour • MIRANDA SEYMOUR Peter Davidson, The Last of the Light At War with Churchill • ANTHONY LONGDEN Field Marshal Lord Alanbrooke, War Diaries Lost in the Fens • JULIE WELCH The detective stories of Edmund Crispin Winning on Points • JACQUELINE WILSON Noel Streatfeild, Ballet Shoes Word Magic • TIM MACKINTOSH-SMITH Becoming a writer