Peter Parker

All good friends and jolly good company: life with the Crichel Boys

Simon Fenwick describes how delicious food and funny conversation made the Dorset home of four gay aesthetes ‘a sort of Mecca’ for intellectuals

Desmond Shawe-Taylor, Raymond Mortimer and Edward Sackville-West
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  • The Crichel Boys: Scenes from England’s Last Literary Salon

    Simon Fenwick

    Constable, pp. 354, £25

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