Dee Salmon, Burnley Remnants of a Youth Club by Alice Cachjeka is a marvellous read, a true story of how five friendships formed and developed.
She always gave him the finished, typed-up drafts, but he would buoyantly declare them marvellous without reading a page.
It's a tribal institution, and some of them are, in a way, marvellous to read.
Some marvellous talking heads – talking, reading – in Roald Dahl's Most Marvellous Book (Channel 4).
"Just been reading your marvellous website (flattery you see), and found out that India has a female long-jumper called Anju Bobby George," sniffs Dominic Firth.
A Tiny Bit Marvellous, written and read by Dawn French (9hrs unabridged, Penguin, £18.99) French's autobiography, Dear Fatty, was a bestseller.
Hair loose, tied with a bow, bewigged, bearded, clean-shaven, Dillane's personas come and go as he maunders, struts and paces, performing Prospero's lines from The Tempest and reading Heinrich von Kleist's marvellous short story, On the Marionette Theatre, written the year before the author shot himself and his lover in a suicide pact.
I happened to be reading Samuel Butler's Notebooks, and he went, 'Oh! Marvellous!', and began to quote his favourite passages.
Read this marvellous book to find out!
Whichever you choose, it's a marvellous – if often unsettling – read.
