Publication: Off the Cluff by Algy Cluff
Off the Cluff by Algy Cluff
Foreword by Taki
Tuesday 6th July 2021
Orders through: Cluff & Sons, Cluff and Sons Ltd, 1-3 Waterloo Crescent, Dover, CT16 1LA
01304 448900 / cluffandsons@gmail.com
978-1-9168994-0-7 / £20
Key political moments of our time – the handover of Hong Kong for one – jostle with Wodehousian observations of grand shooting parties and the right way to wear a club tie in Algy Cluff’s latest gem. Off the Cluff is an erudite and eclectic collection from the much admired pen of a true character.
Reviews of Algy Cluff’s books:
“Enjoyably gossipy, Get On With It also contains valuable insights into business and political life...” – Daily Mail
“… one of the few books I’d read which I wished longer…”
– Charles Moore, – The Spectator
“this rattling, full-throttled, red-blooded memoir
– Richard Davenport-Hines, – TLS
‘… a splendid book…’ –The Times
Algy Cluff 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. There followed thirty years of exploration in the gold industry in Africa. Algy was the proprietor of The Spectator for five years and its Chairman for a further twenty. Off The Cluff is his fourth book.
