Lewis Jones

Not a patch on our own Dear Mary

Claire Cock-Starkey’s collection of outmoded advice from volumes in the British Library is published too early in the year — it would have made a great Christmas loo book

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  • How to Skin a Lion: A Treasury of Outmoded Advice

    Claire Cock-Starkey

    British Library, pp. 176

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