‘This awful bastard says he won’t take my parcel unless I write Alexandria on the bloody thing! You ever heard such insolence?’
— A Parcel for Alexandria
P.H. Newby, CBE: novelist, historian, and managing director of BBC Radio. First winner of the Booker Prize in 1969.
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Detail from The Picnic at Sakkara cover design, Davies Bailey, 1955.