Esprit de Corps

Imagine if P.G.Wodehouse was a diplomat: Durrell's hilarious foreign office sketches are 'sophisticated funny, but wonderful, and bonkers' (Joanna Trollope)'A rewarding cocktail based on two parts Wodehouse and one part Saki … So much fun.' New York Times'Whatever wars there may be and whatever crises, there will still, please heaven, be the diplomatic corps, with its protocol and formalities and a field for humour which I have never seen better used than in these stories.' John BetjemanAfter a lifetime serving that most delightfully British of institutions, the Foreign Office, Antrobus can't resist musing over... Далее