Yesterday afternoon, looking for things to put on Giftster, I read the "Books of the Year" feature in a month-old issue of The Spectator and came across Tom Stoppard: A Life by Hermione Lee. I promptly added it to my list, even though I had never heard of the author.
In the evening I picked up Martin Amis's Inside Story and on page 69 read: "Twelve months earlier, along with four other British writers (Martina Warner, Hermione Lee, Melvyn Bragg, and Julian Barnes) I was a guest of the Friends of Israel Educational Trust."
