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Wunderbar.

Excellent piece, enjoyed reading this. Sort yourselves out, sexists.

That is bloomin marvelous.

Forget these 💙📚 (emojiis of blue heart and green, red and blue books).

This is a picture of the cover of the book ‘Rumpole of the Bailey’ by John Mortimer. It shows a cartoon figure of Rumpole dressed as a lawyer and holding an umbrella like a sword. He is arm in arm with the statue of Justice.

Loved reading these books. John Mortimer was a lovely figure of liberal humanism from a gentler age.

This is the cover of the novel Absolute Beginners by Colin MacInnes published by Penguin Books in 1959. The picture is a drawing of a man wearing a suit and sitting on a bed. The man and the wall behind him are grey and white. There is a picture of a woman on the wall behind the man and the woman is in white against a background of red and blue colour. The bedspread is red.

My mum and dad bought this in the early 1960s. It's written through the eyes of a teenage freelance photographer who travels around London on his scooter. The book has a tolerance for drug users and the LGBT community (unusual for its time) and a vivid description of the Notting Hill race riots.

Book cover of My Turn by Johan Cruyff showing a picture of Johan Cruyff in a Netherlands shirt. The image is on an orange background and Cruyff's name is in stylish white capitals.

💙📚 (emojiis of blue heart and green, red and blue books). I read this book with my best Johan Cruyff accent and I loved the book, as I love Johan. I'm posting up book covers of books that I have on my shelves to see how many days I can keep doing it. 3 days now. Go me.

Love Clive James!

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FT: Spurs 1 Ipswich 2.

Book cover of Her Lover (Belle de Seigneur) by Albert Cohen published by Penguin Modern Classics .

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Best pork sausages.

Tagged.

Thank you Kris. It's lovely to be here.