‘Dashing for the Post’, the first selection of letters from Patrick Leigh Fermor (known to all as ‘Paddy’), delighted critics and public alike. Here now is a further selection offering equal pleasure. Paddy’s exuberant letters exude a zest characteristic of the man. They contain glimpses of the great and the good: a chance conversation with the Foreign Secretary, Anthony Eden, when Paddy opens the wrong door, or a glass of ouzo under the pine trees with Harold Macmillan. They describe encounters with such varied figures as Jackie Onassis, Camilla Parker-Bowles, Oswald Mosley and Peter Mandelson; while also relating adventures with the humble: a ‘pick-nick’ with the stonemasons at Kardamyli, or a drunken celebration in the Cretan mountains with his old comrades from the resistance, most of them simple shepherds and goatherds.

Author Patrick Leigh Fermor Published by Bloomsbury ISBN 9781408893692 EAN 9781408893692 Bic Code Cover Paperback