The book I’m reading

I’m finishing an orchestral commission, so reading isn’t something I have time for. If I read at all, it’s familiar essays by Clive James. Yesterday it was from the collection As of this Writing, which has good essays on Primo Levi. I only read Levi’s If This is a Man for the first time this year. It had a deep effect on me. As it must for everyone, of course. An effect all the richer with James’s essays. He ties a lot of my cultural life together like this, illuminating things I already enjoy or leading me to new interests.

The box set that I’m hooked on

I only recently got round to seeing [the police procedural] A Touch of