John Baker’s Blog

My relationship with T is tenuous these days. My fault entirely because he doesn’t live that far away and we could meet more often. He’s changed over the years and the young man I used to know, and of whom we were all a little in awe because of his strident, no-nonsense prose, has faded [...]

Four sons - Ray French, James Nash, Tom Palmer and John Siddique - talk about their relationships with their fathers and consider their roles as fathers to their own children.
The main problem with a book of this kind is that it might veer towards purely anecdotal reportage, and to an extent that is what happens [...]