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Tim Heald recently spent a half-semester at St John’s College, Sydney. He also launched his latest book, Princess Margaret: A Life Unravelled, at a party in college under the Gothick clock tower.

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Dreaming of Home and Haileybury

Tim Heald on W. Somerset Maugham, Collected Short Stories

William Somerset Maugham’s short stories are like the furniture in a grand boarding-house or the home of an elderly aunt. When I read ‘A Man with a Conscience’ or ‘A Winter Cruise’, I am reminded of Bechstein pianos or solid mahogany writing-desks with brass handles. They’re strangely comforting and consoling, and I’m very fond of them.

Daphne’s Moment of Decadence

Tim Heald on Daphne du Maurier, The Parasites

Du Maurier’s reputation seems, if possible, to grow with the years, not least because she is so difficult to pin down. Everyone, including Margaret Forster, her often uncomfortable official biographer, feels that she is, in a sense, a romantic novelist, but she also manages to be one with a literary reputation. This makes her unusual, if not unique.

Inside the Aunt Heap

Tim Heald on Robin Eakin, Aunts Up The Cross

Aunts up the Cross begins and ends with the death of the author’s great-aunt Juliet, aged 85 and frankly pretty eccentric if not down-right mad. She was run over by a bus which was travelling slowly in the right direction while the old lady was going pretty fast in the opposite, wrong direction. Her progress was made all the more haphazard by the dark glasses which she wore throughout the year. ‘Her untimely end might have been dramatic in a family more given over to quieter leave taking,’ wrote her great-niece, Robin Eakin. ‘But, in ours, it just seemed natural.’

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