Jeremy clarke spectator biography sampler
While visiting Digger in Kalgoorlie, he'd praised a biography called A Fortunate Life as a classic of Australian literature, and I thought I'd.
Taking over from the late Jeffrey Bernard, Jeremy Clarke has been the 'Low Life' columnist for the London Spectator - the oldest weekly magazine in the....
Jeremy Clarke’s life as seen through his books
On a hot afternoon in October, I joined a lunch party.
By the time I arrived, the company was on coffee and liqueurs. A pretty woman in her seventies mentioned an academic friend who was downsizing and how the prospect of getting rid of thousands of books had upset him so much he sought help from a counselor.
The proposed title of the memoir, Domani: Yesterday, sets the tone for this pacy book that doesn't take itself too seriously.The counselor had said: “But they’re only books.”
My husband, Jeremy Clarke, wrote the Low Life column in this magazine for twenty-three years until his death in May. In one of his columns, he wrote about how, after the sale of his mother’s house in Devon (where he’d lived for thirty years), he sent two Mercedes Sprinter van loads of stuff, mostly books, here to Provence.
Seventy boxes arrived, containing around 2,500 volumes. The shelves on the few straight walls in the cave house were already full, so the new arrivals were stored in an adjacent rough cave alongside 100 years’ worth of tools and junk.
He spent so much time in
