Thanks to Marcel Proust, the unassuming madeleine cake has become an indelible symbol of memory and loss. But in the opening paragraphs of this terrific book, Simon Winder gives us an appropriately British alternative: the jumbo bar of Old Jamaica. He remembers eating this splendidly bizarre treat of the 1970s, filled with rum essence and raisins, at one of the key moments in his cultural life – a screening of Live and Let Die at the Tunbridge Wells Odeon.

Jul 2006

Get with the Programme

Goodbye to All That

Juicy QC

Big Game Hunter

The Curtain Falls

Rules for Literary Survival

In Congress

The Beat Goes On

Country House Don

Streets of Shame

All Change, Please

Go West

Regarding Henry

Little Boy From Germany

When the Lights Went Out

History of the Present

American Idol

Most Agreeable

Class of 1979

Pizza Politics

King Dubya

Busting the Myth

That Special Relationship

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