article_snippet: The critic, who is suffering from cancer, refuses to identify those he holds responsible for betraying he but makes it abundantly clear that he knows who those he holds responsible for betraying him are.
article_snippet: I think a serene death with my dogs on the bed would be wonderful,’ he said.
article_snippet: The 84-year-old has admitted to disliking children but loving animals – ironically as he latest book is aimed at youngsters.
article_snippet: The White Umbrella, which has just been published, is about a wounded donkey found by a TV crew visiting Pakistan –
article_snippet: and he says he wrote it as a ‘distraction’ from he radiotherapy.