The Oldie

Among this month’s contributo­rs

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Posy Simmonds (p49 and p81) is the author and illustrato­r of Gemma Bovery and Tamara Drewe. Cassandra Darke is reviewed in this issue, and her self-portrait appears on the Getting Dressed page.

John Lloyd (p16) is the Blackadder producer. He started To the Manor Born and Spitting Image. His new books are 2,024 QI Facts To Stop You In Your Tracks and The Book of the Year 2018.

Nicky Haslam (p37), interior designer, writer and singer, learned the Great American Songbook as a boy, when laid up with polio: ‘I was word-perfect in Ethel Merman by the time I was eight.’

Lucy Lethbridge (p82) trawls through dog-eared guidebooks for travellers’ tales of constipati­on and culture. Her book Tourists: How the British Went Abroad to Find Themselves is published in 2020.

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