At the weekend, we were shown and greatly admired a small printed volume which combines a lecture Fiona MacCarthy gave to the Biographer’s Club with a short memoir by Richard Calvorcoressi, her literary executor and adviser on her last book on Walter Gropius.  I was just about to find out if it was possible to acquire one when I discovered a copy in our letter box, so have been able to enjoy her curious mixture of the ingenue, half a pose, with the highly sophisticated and endlessly curious biographer who treats her discovery that Eric Gill was incestuous with magnificent half casualness.  She died just before Covid, so it has been hard to mourn her properly, but I see that her ODNB entry has just appeared along with other deaths of 2020.