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Country Life’s Will Hosie notes in his ‘Stuff & Nonsense’ column on the 4 June issue:
“Non-doms are leaving members’ clubs in droves to prevent HMRC thinking they are still resident in this country, following a clampdown on the age-old rules by Chancellor Rachel Reeves—but how to depart Pall Mall in style? In the foreword to Charles Graves’s 1964 book Leather Armchairs: A Guide to the Great Clubs of London, P. G. Wodehouse advised doing so as a post-scriptum to an otherwise inoffensive conversation— about the weather, say, or the crops. In his new book, London Clubland: A Companion for the Curious (Robinson, £25), historian Seth Alexander Thévoz suggests, quite simply, death, ‘with a quiet notice in The Times’. Just don’t forget to settle your bar tab first.”
The Oldie ran a broadly positive review of London Clubland by Thomas W. Hodgkinson in their June issue:
