The selected columns of the late journalist A.A. Gill, Lines in the Sand, is crisp, clever and frequently funny. Journalist and author A.A. Gill. Photo: Tom CraigLINES IN THE SAND:COLLECTED JOURNALISMA.A. GillHatchette New ZealandBy ELSPETH McLEANReaders unfamiliar with the provocative wit and wisdom of the late A.A. Gill may not venture beyond the dreary cover of this collection. His record of his 2009 day at Trump University (written in June 2016) included the sketch of a trouserless man holding an umbrella in the rain. His oncologist "does not have the morphine face; he looks amused, inquisitive, like a shaved garrulous otter''.

Source: Otago Daily Times April 09, 2017 18:00 UTC