Jeremy Clarke Jeremy Clarke

My neighbour’s dinner party was a near-death experience

By the end, I felt as though I’d been bayoneted in the guts by a Prussian guardsman

Michael uncorked a couple of bottles of red and offered razor-thin slices of biltong as an appetiser. Credit: Xsandra
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