Professor Barry Mole: Scholarly Obsessive
Some things should stay buried
The Rev Colin Godley: Media vicar
A man for all airwaves
Dr Gabriella Onan: Sex Historian
The straight-faced and straight-laced archaeologist of smut
A most unreliable culture warrior
Not reactionary, just drawn that way
Mike Lear: Lubricious lensman
If Mike is in any way conspicuous, it is by virtue of his sheer inconspicuousness
Frankie Ho: Controversialist
Frankie Ho runs into trouble in the literary world
Hermione Simper
Although Hermione rarely names names or dishes dirt with quite the enthusiasm that her mother did, then she too has her tales to tell
Lucien Grote: Experimental Playwright
Lucien veers between lamenting modern theatre’s disdain for “truly serious work” and suspecting that it all could have gone a great deal worse
Rosie Cackle
Veteran comedienne
Goodbye to the Blonds
The generation of idiosyncratic proprietors who changed the face of the British book industry