Yesterday, I reviewed Timothy Knatchbull's memoir in the Sunday Times. He was 14 years old when the IRA planted a bomb on his family's boat in Ireland, injuring himself, his mother and father, and killing his twin brother, his grandmother, his grandfather - Lord Mountbatten - and an Irish teenager called Paul Maxwell. He writes well.
Talking to Colum McCann on Saturday - who has written a novel called Let the Great World Spin, which I will be writing about on Sunday - he reminded me of a wonderful piece in American Esquire shortly after 9/11 called The Falling Man worth 20 minutes of your time.
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