Introduced by Sarah Dunant Other People's Lives: as Literary Editor of the Times, Philip Howard 's life is dominated by books. While he proclaims that he is a man of the written word, he does admit that when faced with a political biography he would normally prefer to browse through a telephone directory.
Ruth Dudley Edwards challenges his boredom threshold.
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