Book review: Less, by Patrick Grant

I suspect I am in a minority among readers of this book in not knowing who Patrick Grant is in advance. He is the dapper judge from The Great British Sewing Bee, a Savile Row master tailor and founder of Community Clothing. I discovered all of this while reading the book, which I picked up for its title.

There have been a steady stream of books with titles like this one – Enough, Consumed, Possessed, and Stuffocation all come to mind as single-word titles on consumerism. Each of them upd...