The will and its codicil comprise a remarkable inventory of Mrs Everard's household goods, written with an attention to detail that would have delighted her fictional counterpart.
In general the paper is well written with a good literature base, and great effort were undertaken to ensure reliability during the record breaking attempt, including two witnesses.
What I'm trying to do now is blend good writing with deep investigative reporting.
There were books that would blend, I think, really good writing with thriller genres.
And Merton, with another theological twist that Orwell would probably not have much appreciated, also implies that if our fundamental human problem is "Prometheanism", wanting to steal divinity from God rather than labouring at being human, then good writing, with its inbuilt ironies and its awareness of its own conditions, is one of the things that stop us imagining we are more than human.
While 24 Hours has the kit-like efficiency of a script, a hurried style that mixes good writing with bad, and takes pleasure in its cinematic references, it never transcends the films from which it borrows: The Desperate Hours, in which Humphrey Bogart invaded Frederic March's home, and Cape Fear with Robert Mitchum.
Zinsser presents essential rules for good writing, with explanations to quiet skeptical minds.
Two years ago, Reid published an autobiography, "The Good Fight," written with the assistance of Mark Warren, of Esquire.
It is, by any definition, a good read, written with spirit, conviction and authority.
That accusation seems unfair – his two books, for a start, are pretty good novels, written with brutal honesty and a spare, matter-of-fact delivery.
