"Little absurdities and misunderstandings amused him, such as when the local newspaper sent a photographer round for a feature on Argument of Kings.‘What sort of book is it?’ the photographer asked ‘An autobiography, I suppose’, Vernon replied. ‘Oh,’ the photographer said. ‘Who’s it about, then?’ Scannell rather enjoyed that. But actually, it wasn’t a bad question."" Daniel Hitchens on a new biography of Vernon Scannell • Oxonian Review

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