Write on queue: Bill makes new pen pals

AS Bill Clinton strode through Easons bookshop, in Dublin, every shelf held a chapter of his life.

Adams’s autobiography, Milosevic’s biography, a history of the Northern Troubles, an analysis of the Middle East, Hillary’s memoirs.

It was just a pity he missed the style section where Trinnie and Susannah’s What Not To Wear might have advised against electric-green polo shirts.