Alexander Chancellor

Out of puff

The third volume of Simon Gray’s incomparable ‘smoking diaries’ opens with a bold statement of intent to drop the habit that has sustained and comforted him for more than six decades.

  • The Last Cigarette: The Smoking Diaries, Volume III

    Simon Gray

    Granta, pp. 312

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