OLDIE NOVEL OF THE MONTH Boris’s landlord LAURA BEATTY The Paper Lantern
Jun 02, 2021
2 minutes
By Will Burns
Weidenfeld & Nicolson £14.99
The Paper Lantern is a pub that really exists. Close to Chequers, the Prime Minister’s country retreat, it sits both literally and symbolically at the heart of England.
Will Burns’s parents run it and he himself lives and works in it part-time. So this is a work of autofiction. It describes the dream days of
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