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Bernard Jones
originally began as a one-off feature idea for the Investors
Chronicle for the Christmas edition of 2005. The plan, to leaven
the magazine’s heavier fare of share tips and analysis with some
light-hearted comic fiction, worked so well that editor Matthew
Vincent asked me (actually I didn’t need much persuading) to
revive Bernard as a weekly and topical column for the magazine.
This book is more
than a collection of previously published columns. A good
quarter of the book is new and unpublished material. It also
includes many of Samara Bryan’s wonderful illustrations, which
so brought to life the domestic crises which propels Bernard
from one furiously scribbled diary page to another. Never in the
field of human conflict have so many biscuits mattered so much
to so few, as Churchill may once have said.
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