By Rory Knight Bruce
Mount Orleans Press £20
Rory Knight Bruce was one of Fleet Street's characters in the 1980s and ‘90s: a bit of a legend in his own lunchtime.
A Puck-like, Will-o’-the-wisp Withnail in everyone's peripheral vision, he seemed to appear from nowhere, leaving a trail of larger-8than-life pranks, triumphs and more frequent disasters, which fuelled drunken gossip to everyone's amusement.
For a period, he edited that prepschool of posh journos, the s Londoner's Diary, from where he sallied forth