In the spring of 2004, there was only one book being published. At least, that was how it felt to me. The noise around Helen Walsh’s Brass was ambient, inescapable. The author had been ...

BOOK OF THE DAY: Disgusting Bliss: The Brass Eye of Chris MorrisBy Lucian Randall Simon Schuster 276pp, £12.99 abuses in the media? A charismatic misanthrope? A conman working to an impenetrable ...