This is rather a piece of Inmanship, which will chiefly interest those in The Trade, i.e. fellow journalists. Alan Watkins has a long, busy and fairly distinguished career as a political journalist, having worked or written for virtually every English Sunday newspaper and weekly of note, from the Sunday Express to the New Statesman. His book is predictably full of anecdotes and recollections of events in which he was professionally involved, some of them by now faded like yesterday's headlines. It is also crammed full with personalities - who include Lord Beaverbrook, Richard Crossman, even Conor Cruise O'Brien - and the anecdotes fall fast and thick. Overall, it is rather a rattle-bag, though probably indispensable for anybody with an interest in the history of British journalism in the late 20th century, and lively from first to last.