Faber Finds

The recent centenary of the birth of Enoch Powell incited a compelling range of commemorations, across a spectrum of daily papers and blogs – the accents (as ever with Powell) upon intellect and conviction, controversy and infamy, Powell’s striking tendency toward ‘Here I stand, I can do no other’, and the perennial theme of how all political careers end in failure, some more conspicuously than others. Front and centre among the commentators was Powell’s authorized biographer Simon Heffer, whose Like The Roman: The Life of Enoch Powell Finds has been pleased to offer since 2008. As of this year we have been doubly pleased to make it available for Kindle (see here), on which device a work that runs to 1000+ printed pages may now be weighed in the balance within the palm of one’s hand…