Tag: Garrick Club
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The Garrick Club part II: when luvvies attack
This should ideally be read in the context of my earlier post about the club and its travails. There have been a couple of developments. To take a reactionary, reductio ad absurdum viewpoint for a moment, would this give me the right to object to being judged by a member of the Women’s Institute or…
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Garrick Club – rumblings in the corridors of power, happy memories and a sorry state of affairs
I joined the Garrick Club in 2009 and resigned at the end of 2023. When our bookshop was in Long Acre, Covent Garden, the club was just around the corner. My father was a member long before I was and used to go every Monday for lunch, usually sitting at the publishers’ table where others…