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NEWS AT A GLANCE

. Pineapples are so plentiful in Natal at certain seasons that they are not worth carting to market, and so are often given to pigs. — The Nelson Evening Mail, September 27 1906 . The French king Louis XIII was known as ‘the Just’ because he was born under the sign of the Libra. Maxwell […]

Enclosures. [fragments]

We advise you to take delivery of securities purchased fr bankers. We prefer this course and we always advise our — Trustees of the Economic Bank of Form upon which to put forward by the Tr ……….We shall be gl return it to us as quickl the proposals being carrie being a payment at the […]

Bollcks to the new-born king!

Troll(ing) the ancient Yuletide carol. — For The Spectator

My literary career thus far – as narrated by the Shipping Forecast

Good, becoming moderate. Occasionally very poor.

Eight debut novels

Currently sitting at 12 to 1 for this year’s Booker Prize, first-time novelist Paul Kingsnorth has set the cat among the pigeons through the disarmingly original expedient of submitting his offering in a fictional language. Composed in what Kingsnorth calls the ‘shadow tongue’ of ‘eald anglisc’, The Wake (Unbound 365pp £16.99) explores one angle of […]