About the Book:

On reading Algy Cluff's first volume, Get On With It, Tom Stoppard remarked that the author's subsequent book should be titled ‘The Importance of Being Algy’ 

Several tomes later, and with due deference to Stoppard and Wilde, Algy has taken the suggestion on board. Here you will discover why Ian Fleming never achieved his heart's desire, delve into the Guinness Affair, marvel at the fast and louche life of the ‘Peter Pan of Mayfair’ and accompany the author to - and then swiftly away from - a disastrous dinner with Princess Margaret. Alongside come despatches from the gold mining and oil industries and a reflection on the parlous state of humour in the modern world, among other eclectic gems from the pen of a true character. 

About the Author:

Algy Cluff OBE was born in 1940. He served for six years in the Army in West Africa, Cyprus and Borneo. A pioneer of North Sea oil exploration, he founded Cluff Oil in 1972. This lead to the discovery of the Buchan Field. There followed thirty years of exploration in the gold industry in Africa and the discovery and development of gold mines. He remains active in the oil business. Algy was the proprietor of The Spectator for five years and its Chairman for a further twenty. He was the proprietor of other magazines, including Apollo and the Literary Review.