Am I the strange one?

Some thoughts about the difference between professionals’ tastes and those of the general public.

At the moment I am going through quite an incredibly fertile run with books left out on the street by neighbours having a clear-out. In the past month, I’ve picked up Byron Roger’s The Last Englishman, The Life of EL Carr (just brilliant, one of the best things I’ve read in years), Jancis Robinson’s Confessions of a Wine Lover (deserves an article of it…