I imagine like many of you book lovers, you hear of, read or discover down an investigative rabbit hole, a book which piques interest, go online (often late at night) to order from www.bookfinder.com and by the time the book arrives (and in my case in Australia,since Covid, this could take weeks if not months as my books usually shipped from the UK) by the time that thrilling brown parcel appears stuffed into your postbox or front door you have no recollection what tome will be revealed. This was the case last week when, on ripping open I took one look at the politically incorrect title and knew I was in for a good ride. I have no idea how I had heard of this book, let alone to whom the title referred but only two pages required turning for all to be revealed. For those unfamiliar with Lord Beaverbrook, he was a Canadian born, English self made business (cement) and newspaper magnate, backstage politician and all round influential figure in England during the first half of the 20th century. He became the confident of Edward V111 during the abdication crisis and in the critical days leading up to that event The Beaver, having just arrived by ship in New York, was summoned by the King to immediately return to England requiring the reluctant peer obediently step right back onto the ship and steam back from whence he’d come. During WW11 Churchill made him Minister of Aircraft Production. On being made a peer he chose the title Beaverbrook because as a boy in Ontario he loved swim in a brook called the Beaver. The book begins in 1961 when the English author, a shy, nervous, twenty seven year old public school boy arrives to meet for the first time eighty one year old Lord Beaverbrook, at his mansion in the South of France, to try out for the role as his secretary. I am adoring.