Quotes from Anselm Audley

This is Jeremy, he doesn't talk much.

they settled themselves on deeply uncomfortable chairs in the meeting room.

If we're going to get the world running on nuclear power instead of coal one day – and let me tell you, after living in Manchester, that'll make a big difference to a great many people

where did anyone in England get the money to spend their life collecting old country stories? Everything seemed to be rationed here, except gossip.

The Selchester police station was like every other in England – square and imposing on the outside, shabby and institutional on the inside.

Such wickedness, to marry in secret and then deny it. I was told English aristocrats only have time for dogs and horses. This is clearly not true.

a hatch, match and dispatch Anglican,

Weaned on a pickle, you were.

I have said too much, it is my way. I forget, you English, you like to come at things slowly, little by little, to leave much unsaid.

Sir Bernard was standing at his big eastern window with his hands behind his back, looking out over the fog. It was his great-man-of-affairs pose,