If you have half an hour - or even a few minutes - to spare, go to BBC Radio 4, switch on the volume control, scroll down to 'You've never had it so good' and listen to a fascinating programme written and narrated by Peter Hennessy about our former chairman, Harold Macmillan. If nothing else (but there is plenty else) it's worth it for his delivery.

Over the weekend I read the proofs of a book we are publishing in April. It is by the journalist and sports writer Matthew Engel and it is a selection from his obsessive collection of red notebooks. Every page had something on it which made me smile or think. Great lines such as 'Australia, the land that foreplay forgot' (Germaine Greer);'In the history of the world, no one ever washed a rented car' (Lawrence Summers); 'After two years in Washington, I missed the sincerity and genuineness of Hollywood' (Fred Thompson); and so much more. Place your orders now.

I wrote yesterday about Jeffrey Archer's new book. Here is the cover. It is the first time his name does not appear on the front of one of his books.