Andrew Norman Wilson is an English writer and newspaper columnist, known for his critical biographies, novels, works of popular history and religious views. He is an occasional columnist for the Daily Mail and former columnist for the London Evening Standard, and has been an occasional contributor to the Times Literary Supplement, New Statesman, The Spectator and The Observer.
There are interesting and amusing snippets in this miscellany, but there is too much of it that is particular the Church of England, leaving it beyond my experience. The fact that the book never formally admits to the limits of its ambit reveals a certain parochialism in the author and sets narrow bounds on the material covered.