The Various Flavours Of Coffee

prodding his great pizzle into her hindquarters.

They talked of rousing all London, but never seemed to have enough postage stamps.

Whenever people talk to me about the weather, I always feel quite certain that they mean something else. And that makes me so nervous.’

I would never have to take employment again. I could travel: I had always wanted to do the Grand Tour, like so many poets and artists before me. I could afford a place in town, and somewhere quiet in the country. I would be able to write, freed from domestic worries.

Give a heathen charity and he remains a heathen, and the charity is soon gone; but only give him a contract of employment and you have pointed him on the road towards eternal life -’

the slums of Fitzrovia,

he was more relaxed when he was in motion, as if the furious headlong impetus of the train somehow soothed his own restless need for activity.

Molly Allen, fearless as ever.

each tenement is a rookery containing up to a hundred families, all living cheek-by-jowl in a fetid stew of sweat, gin, breath and skin.