‘This is not a book designed to please long-term followers and anyone hoping for sly, grown-up references will find none. This is as innocent a children’s book as any and a neat little stocking filler for any little boy (or girl, sorry Brian) with a budding car obsession’

The Independent reviews The Man Who Built

The Evening Standard also published a feature on the memorial service held for Brian Sewell, which can be read here.

There was also a piece in the Evening Standard Londoner’s Diary.

On Tuesday, The Evening Standard held a memorial service for Brian Sewell at St James’s, Piccadilly. It was a beautiful service with a wonderful eulogy by Sir Max Hastings. The Guardian has quoted him as follows:

‘He possessed the gifts of all successful polemicists: conceit, passion, wit, literary elegance, an instinctive suspicion of, and disdain

‘Prolific journalist and author Liz Hodgkinson’s book is remarkably timely. FROM A GIRL TO A MAN coincides with the current heated debate about transsexuals, a debate fuelled by Germaine Greer’s recent controversial observation that male-to-female sex-change people are a “ghastly travesty” and not real women. Hodgkinson’s sympathetic and moving biography of Michael Dillon (born Laura

‘I was at Eton between 1962 and 1966 at a time when the fagging culture was rife and the culture of prefects of 17 or 18 abusing boys aged 13 and 14 was endemic. It was a problem at many public schools’

Robert Montagu reveals to the Sunday Express that he once stopped a boy

‘Veteran publisher Terry Maher, in a new set of memoirs, discloses that his Cockney chauffeur once asked him if he wanted a business rival bumped off — or at least biffed about a bit…’

Sebastian Shakespeare writes about Terry Maher’s forthcoming memoir One of Lowry’s Children in today’s Daily Mail diary. You can read the

Listen to Liz Hodgkinson discuss From a Girl to a Man: How Laura Became Michael and the C4 documentary on Roberta Cowell and Michael Dillon on BBC Oxford. Listen to the show here and get your copy of the book here today.

‘The Sex Change Spitfire Ace’ documentary on Roberta Cowell and Michael Dillon was aired on Channel 4 and is available to watch here. To coincide with the showing, Liz Hodgkinson wrote articles for The Telegraph, The Mirror and the story was also covered in the Daily Mail.

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‘the completed quartet is a stunning exploration of the morally murky reality of life in wartime France’

The Times reviews End Games in Bordeaux by Allan Massie. Get your copy of the book here today.