Towers of Trebizond

"''Take my camel, dear," said my Aunt Dot, as she climbed down from this animal on her return to High Mass.'' Thus starts, with one of the most famous opening lines in modern English literature, Rose Macaulay''s classic novel, The Towers of Trebizond.As wise, civilised and wholly entertaining as it was when first published in 1956, the novel tells the beautifully absurd story of the inimitable Aun...