“Sod the wine, I want to suck on the writing. This man White is an instinctive writer, bloody rare to find one who actually pulls it off, as in still gets a meaning across with concision. Sharp arbitrage of speed and risk, closest thing I can think of to Cicero’s ‘motus continuum animi.’

Probably takes a drink or two to connect like that: he literally paints his senses on the page.”


DBC Pierre (Vernon God Little, Ludmila’s Broken English, Lights Out In Wonderland ... Winner: Booker prize; Whitbread prize; Bollinger Wodehouse Everyman prize; James Joyce Award from the Literary & Historical Society of University College Dublin)


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23 May 2017

STRAWBERRY SNUFFLEPUP FOR PINOTABLES

nother sketch from the Very Old notebooks ... image©Philip White ... Bass Phillip Pinot reviews coming soon... Milton Wordley took this photograph of Bass Phillip winemaker Phillip Jones and the author last time we sat down for a proper chat in The Exeter:

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