For the Time Being

_______________ ''Such a companionable writer you just don''t want to let him go'' - The Times _______________ First published in 1998, For the Time Being brings together Dirk Bogarde''s published work outside of his novels and autobiographies. In 1988, Dirk Bogarde returned from two idyllic decades in France to live in England, due to his partner''s serious illness. Shortly afterwards, the then literary editor of the Daily Telegraph, admiring the ''lucid frankness'' of Bogarde''s memoirs, invited him to review some books for the newspaper. This collection includes the famous article ''A Short Walk from Harrods'', which Bogarde wrote for the Independent on Sunday soon after returning to London. In it he describes what it feels like to walk among familiar ghosts and to dine with those he considers ''the living dead''. A momentous review of three Holocaust books