MI6, TLS and off to Wigtown

I am getting ready for several consecutive weekends of literary festivals in which I can tell readers what they are missing if they fail to subscribe to the TLS. The first is Wigtown in Scotland where I'm talking about family memoirs and the remembering of Roman history, After that comes Henley and Cheltenham and Boston, Mass..

One problem of the literary festival season is facing the complaints of authors and publishers about the books we do not review, review too late or even review too...