self-discipline 58, 290
see also above fiction; non-fiction
Forster Davies Ltd 214–15
Fowles, John 130
Frances Lincoln 215
Fraser, Antonia 115, 131
Freud, Sigmund 351
Friern Barnet Hospital 284
Frostrup, Mariella 206
Fry, Helen 204, 205
Fry, Stephen 237
Garner, Lesley 144
Garnett, Tony 90
Gascoigne, Paul 168
Geeson, Judy 85–6, 87
Geldof, Bob 354
Georgy Girl (Forster) 65–6
film 80–2, 86, 87
Gilzean, Alan 163
The Ginger Man (Donleavy) 26
Glanville, Brian 42–3, 158
The Glory Game (Davies) 159–66, 224
Godwin, Fay 130
Godwin, Tony 127–8, 129, 130–1, 132, 145, 161, 162
Golders Green crematorium 351–2
The Good Guide to the Lakes (Forster) 211–12, 213–16
Good Lives (Forster) 287
Goodbody, Buzz 91, 126
Goodman, Lord 165–6
Goodman Derrick 165
Goon Show (BBC) 77
Gordonstoun 39
Gozo 113, 114, 116
Grade family 223
Granta (magazine) 30, 144
Grasmoor House 251
see also Loweswater
Greenwood, Ron 159
Grenfell, Joyce 351
Groucho Club 308, 309
Grove, Claire 199, 347
Grove, Valerie 336, 346
Guardian 144, 196–7, 198, 228, 229, 237
Habitat 124
Hadrian’s Wall 208
Hall, Mrs (tenant) 54, 57, 66, 135–6, 137–8, 193, 195
Hall, Peter 45
Hall, Ron 30
Hamilton, Denis 19, 20, 30, 35, 42–3, 101
Hamlyn 212
Hamlyn, Mike 52
Hampstead 6, 11, 48–9
Hampstead Heath fair 12
Handley, Tommy 351
A Hard Day’s Night (film) 92
Hardie, Becky 339, 351
Hardy, Thomas 27
Harling, Robert 74
HarperCollins 167
Harrison, Dorothy 17
Harrison, George 104
Harry Ransom Center, Texas 206
Hattersley, Molly 179
Hattersley, Roy 179, 180
Have the Men Had Enough? (Forster) 200, 287
Heald, Tim 71, 72, 83
Heath, Edward 147
Heinemann 65, 91, 98, 127
Here We Go Round the Mulberry Bush (Davies) 64–5, 66, 86–7
film 82–6, 87–8
Herrmann, Frank 52, 160
Hidden Lives (Forster) 287
Hill, Jimmy 159
Hillaby, John 203
Hobson, Harold 25, 143
Hockney, David 76
Hodson, Harold 18
Holloway prison 279
homosexuality 77, 114
decriminalisation of 77
Hooper, Alison 116, 117, 118, 194
Horizon Holidays 3, 4
Horse and Hound magazine 242
hospice system 327
How to Measure a Cow (Forster) 251, 292–3
Hulanicki, Barbara 142
Hurst, Geoff 154
Huxley, Aldous 39–40, 42
I Knew Daisy Smuten (Davies, ed.) 145
In Search of Columbus (Davies) 224
Independent 227–8, 278, 289
Independent on Sunday 233
Ingrams, Richard 28
institutional pecking order 16–17
Irving, Clive 30
Isa and May (Forster) 291
Issigonis, Alec 35
Jack, Ian 144, 233–4
Jackanory (BBC) 134, 135
Jamaica 259–60
Jennings, Pat 163
John, Derek 320
The John Lennon Letters (Davies) 224
Johnson, Alan 88
Jonathan Cape 62
Jones, Alison 271, 299
Junor, John 70
Keane, Fergal 311
Kemsley, Lord 19
Kendal mint cake 213–14
Kentish Town 6, 49, 53, 252
Kington, Miles 227–8
Kinnock, Glenys 197
Kircherr, Astrid 103
Kramer, Larry 83, 84
Kray Brothers 67
Lambert, Jack 70–1
Law, Denis 76
Lawrence, D. H. 6
Leigh Hunt, James Henry 6
Lennon, John 92, 99–100, 104, 106, 107, 123, 126
Leslie, Cole 149, 150
Leverton and Sons 344–5, 350, 353
Lilliput (magazine) 117
literary lunches 203–4
Little, Brown 219
Littlewood, Joan 26
Living on the Lottery (Davies) 217–22
Loach, Ken 90
Lodge, Dr Philip 311–13, 314, 316, 326, 327–8, 332, 333–4
London postcodes 6
London property market 48
Look Back in Anger (Osborne) 25, 26
lottery winners 217–22
Loweswater 244–55, 273, 292, 293
Loweswater Show 249, 250
Lowry, L. S. 22–4, 96
McCartney, Heather 119
McCartney, Linda 119–20
McCartney, Mary 120
McCartney, Nancy 120
McCartney, Paul 88, 92, 93, 94–6, 104, 119, 120
McCullin, Donald 170
MacDonald, Ramsay 27
McGraw-Hill 112
MacGregor, Iain 225
McKinna, Mr 182, 183, 184–5
McLuhan, Marshall 102
Mail on Sunday 235, 240
Major, John 222
Manchester Evening Chronicle 3
Marie Curie Cancer Hospice, Hampstead 272, 286, 313–14, 316–45
Martin, George 106, 165
Maschler, Tom 62, 66
Masefield, John 23, 26–7, 60
Mason, James 82
Matthews, Sir Stanley 67
Mayhew, Henry 24
Memoirs of a Victorian Gentleman: William Makepeace Thackeray (Forster) 175, 177–8
MI5 137
Miller, Jonathan 3
Milligan, Spike 77
Mills, Heather 120
Mini Minor 35–40
Mitford, Jessica 203
Montgomery, General 19
Moon, Keith 351
Moore, Dudley 3
Moors Murders 67
Morecambe, Eric 147
Morris, Desmond 111
Morrison shelters 52
Mortimer, John 83
Mortimer, Penelope 83
Mullery, Alan 163
multiple sclerosis 190
Multiple Sclerosis Society 129, 130
Murphy, Pat 44
My Left Foot (Brown) 152, 153
My Life in Houses (Forster) 292
Nabokov, Vladimir 149–50, 152–3
Narizzano, Silvio 81
National Lottery 217–22
Net Book Agreement 214
The New London Spy (Davies, ed.) 89
New Poor and New Rich 88–9, 122
New Statesman (magazine) 167, 237–8, 309
New Year predictions 307–8, 319–20
New York Times 347
Newby, Dr 299–300
newspaper serialisations 19–20, 102, 220
Nichols, Peter 81
A Day in the Death of Joe Egg 81
Privates on Parade 81
Nicholson, Bill 161, 162, 164
Northern Echo 100, 101
Novello, Ivor 351
Nunn, Trevor 115
Oakes, Philip 230
Observer 17, 25, 228
Oh, What a Lovely War! (musical) 26
Okavango Observer 277
Olympic Games 222
Ono, Yoko 99–100
The Other Half (Davies) 88
–9, 90–1, 222
Over (Forster) 291
Overtons restaurant 38
package holidays 3–4
Palatinate (student newspaper) 32, 141, 147, 215
Palmer, Tony 128, 232
parenthood 283
Parfitt, Derek 212
Parkin, Molly 142–3
Parliament Hill Fields 49–50
Pavlova, Anna 351
Peel, John 176
People 165
Peston, Maurice 180
Peston, Robert 180
Peters, Frank 213
Peters, Martin 163
Pick, Charles 65, 91, 97, 98, 127
Pick, Martin 91
Pinter, Harold, The Birthday Party 83
placenta 56–7
The Playground (Davies) 90
Portugal 116–19, 194
Potter, Beatrix 211, 223, 251
Potter, Dennis 78
Powell, Dilys 25, 70, 143
Powell, Gareth 126
Precious Lives (Forster) 286–7
Priestley, J. B. 60, 198
print unions 28
Private Eye magazine 79
Privates on Parade (Nichols) 81
property developers 194
Punch magazine 228–32
Quant, Mary 142
Quiz Book to the Lakes (Davies) 215
Raitz, Vladimir 4
Rampling, Charlotte 81
Random House 216
Ransome, Arthur 206
The Rash Adventurer: The Rise and Fall of Charles Edward Stuart (Forster) 132
Rattigan, Terence 26
Rawnsley, Canon Hardwicke 223
Rebuck, Gail 212–13, 215, 216
Red Pike 254
Redgrave, Lynn 81
Redgrave, Vanessa 81
Rees-Mogg, Gillian 21–2
Rees-Mogg, Jacob 22
Rees-Mogg, William 21–2, 101
Regler, Di 34
Relative Strangers (Davies) 222–3
Rhodesia 67
The Rise and Fall of Jake Sullivan (Davies) 126–9, 232
Robinson, Josee 28, 29
Robinson, Robert 17, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 27–8, 29, 42
Robson, John 70
Romney’s 213–14
Rooney, Coleen 167, 168
Rooney, Wayne 166–8
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead (Stoppard) 79
Rosenthal, Tom 175, 177, 178
Rough Guides (guidebooks) 215
Royal Free Hospital 55, 171, 172, 173, 181, 253, 265, 267, 268, 271, 272, 298, 299, 328
Royal Marsden Hospital 182–5
Royal Shakespeare Company 115, 126, 282
Rubens, Bernice 204
Rushdie, Salman 203
Ruskin College 191
Russell, Bertrand 198
Russell, Leonard 70, 105
Russians 136–8
sackings 234–7
Salinger, J. D. 64
Samson, Alan 219, 223, 224
Sardinia 3, 4–5
Sassoon, Vidal 89, 122
Saturday Night Fever (film) 128
Saunders, Cicely 327
Savoy Hotel 16, 68–9
Screen Writers Guild 84
Secker and Warburg 66, 152, 175
secretaries 22
Seekers 82
Sellers, Peter 77
Sergeant Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band (album) 165
Shaw, George Bernard 60, 351
Shelbourn, Colin 212, 214
sherry 10, 11, 14
siblings 188
Significant Sisters (Forster) 320
Simon, Richard 64–5, 97, 127, 161, 162, 219
Sissons, Michael 32–3, 65
Sitwell, Sacheverell 21
sixties culture 66, 73–5, 123–5
smog, London 40–1
Snowdon, Lord 170
Spence, Peter 232
Spencer Davis Group 86
Spender, Stephen 105
Spurs 155–6, 159–63, 238
Stamp News 233
Starr, Ringo 104, 106, 168
Stephenson, George 176, 177, 223, 224
Stevenson, Robert Louis 223, 224, 245
Stigwood, Robert 128
Stobart, Eddie 223, 251
Stoppard, Tom 79, 81
‘Strawberry Fields’ (Beatles) 97
Stuart, Charles Edward (Bonnie Prince Charlie) 132
Stuart, Dr 294, 295, 302
suburban London 52–3
Sunday Express 70
Sunday Graphic 15, 16, 17, 18, 24, 70
Sunday Telegraph 17
Sunday Times 2, 15–16, 17–27, 35, 36, 74, 100–2, 140–1, 146–53, 165, 205, 220, 230, 309, 347
Atticus 4, 20, 21, 22, 24–5, 26–7, 29–30, 41–2, 43–4, 60, 69, 71–9, 100, 102, 212
Insight 30, 143
Look! 140–4
Money 239–40
Scene 146
sports pages 157–8
Sunday Times Magazine 14, 15, 20, 146–8, 170, 202
‘A Life in the Day’ 147–8
Sutcliffe, Stu 103
Tagore, Rabindranath 7
tape recording interviews 105–6, 207, 286
Targett, Jocelyn 235–6
tax exiles 111
Taylor, A. J. P. 203
Taylor, Derek 106
teenagers 275–6
The Teller of Tales: In Search of Robert Louis Stevenson (Davies) 224
Thackeray, William Makepeace 175, 177–8, 231
Thant, U 102
Theo (Margaret’s friend) 7, 212, 304–5, 326–7
Thomas, Caitlin 56, 354
Thomas, Dylan 354
Thomson, Roy 17, 19, 101, 147
Thornhill, Mike 1, 3, 35, 347
The Times 101, 346, 347
Timothy, Christopher 85
To the Manor Born (BBC) 232
Tomalin, Claire 43, 45, 46
Tomalin, Nicholas 30, 41, 42, 43, 44–5, 46, 53, 70, 71
tortoise 133–5
Traffic 86
Tremain, Rose 339
Tyler, Anne 339
Tynan, Kenneth 25, 67, 95
The Unknown Bridesmaid (Forster) 291
Vale of Heath 6–7, 11, 12
van der Post, Lucia 144
A Very Loving Couple (Davies) 129
Wainwright, Alfred 211, 223, 251
Wale, Sidney 161
A Walk Around the Lakes (Davies) 224
A Walk Round the West Indies (Davies) 258–9
Wallington, Jeremy 30
Wardington 132–3
Wardington, Lord 177
Watson, Graham 62, 64
Waugh, Auberon 78–9, 230
Wednesday Play (BBC) 90
Weidenfeld, George 145–6
Weidenfeld and Nicolson 127, 129, 145, 162
Weldon, Fay 11, 178
Weldon, Ron 11
West Ham 159
West Indies 256–63, 274
What’s New Pussycat? (film) 83
William Collins 16
William Wordsworth: A Biography (Davies) 223
Williams, Richard 86
Williams, Shirley 190
Wilsher, Peter 17
Wilson, George 173
Wilson, Harold 2, 67
Winwood, Steve 86
Witherow, John 239
Woodcock, Mrs (tenant) 9–10, 11, 14
Wordsworth, William 223, 224, 251, 255
World Cup final, 1966 154–5
writing
biographical material 287–8
income 278
inspiration 252
Z Cars (BBC) 59
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