The Second Cuckoo: Chosen by Kenneth Gregory

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The Second Cuckoo: Chosen by Kenneth GregoryA second volume of letters to that august, imposing publication, The Times from the early 1900s up until the 1980s not only from the man in the street, but from luminaries such as Evelyn Waugh (earning an honest dollar); Sir Thomas Beecham (on tempo, naturally); Agatha Christie (on Shakespeare); Joyce Grenfell ('glamouramas') Robert Graves, author of I, CLaudius (on the bliss of being ignored) and so many more. Other topics that have stirred a letter

life is a mystery

Little Maggie worships Tom and wants his approval - but Tom is unpredictable

Black Colin of Loch Awe

taking over their minds

two Russian spies are after the key component that Gilligan now wears as a necklace

wool and grain clippers in the majestic days of sail

Barbaric customs and bizarre human cults are preserved on the planet Elsewhere

Now he is presumed dead in Red China

yet when Alfred unexpectedly defeats the Danes and the Danes themselves turn on Uhtred

and most things are only good for a laugh

former Nazis and devil-worshippers indulge in depraved rituals

An attempt to teleport a US destroyer