BRED OF HEAVEN BY JASPER REES (Profile Books £12.99)
Not many people in full possession of their faculties would find it appealing or necessary to try to turn themselves into a ‘real Welshman’. Nevertheless, this has been the ambition of Old Harrovian Jasper Rees in his new book Bred Of Heaven.
As his last book, I Found My Horn, saw Rees learn the trumpet from scratch, we can at once see what’s afoot: an author in search of a gimmick. Perhaps a future project will see Rees don the burka and infiltrate Helmand to search for his inner opium cultivator.
Before he dies, no doubt Jasper Rees will join the Linlithgow Pipe Band, half of whom are girls; run a preserved steam railway, so that he can wear the silk hat of a Station Master; and then he’ll have a go at being a stuntman in the Bond movies — there’s definitely a book or two there.
He’s very game, though, Jasper Rees, despite his being a posh English dilettante who is ‘privileged, metropolitan and puny’. Throughout this book, I admired his pluck. To try to see what it’s like being Welsh, he paddled a coracle (‘I swirl about like a cork in a whirlpool’).
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