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  • Author(s): CRAIG BROWN
  • Source:
    Mail on Sunday. 11/25/2018, p10. 4p.
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    • Abstract:
      Years ago, I used to review restaurants. No one ever asked me if I always ate everything on my plate. But now that I review books, the question I'm most often asked is: 'Do you finish every book?' The answer is yes, though it can sometimes be a struggle. I remember wondering if I was ever going to get to the end of David Blunkett's diaries, which ran to 850 pages. Blunkett seemed to take a fierce pride in avoiding any topic of interest. At one point, he wrote that his former Cabinet colleague Charles Clarke had been 'outspoken about his time in the Home Office, and it was certainly illuminating to hear what he had to say'. But he stopped there, keeping tightlipped about what Clarke had actually said. Discretion may be the better part of valour, but it is the worst part of a memoir. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]