Book Munch reviews Low Life: The Spectator Columns by Jeremy Clarke
‘This collection of Clarke’s columns is indeed a celebration however they offer more. For the strictly old-school, those of a certain age who remain unreconstructed, these pieces can certainly be enjoyed at the ‘beers and birds’ level. However like the best art, these street dispatches – vignettes – are multi-layered, with surprising depth to, for example, recounting snorting cocaine in a pub toilet. There is texture behind a seemingly flat veneer. Clarke’s writing sings’