It’s good that Nicholas Hope has written this amusing, light-footed entertainment. Should he give up his day job as an unemployed actor, in Brushing the Tip of Fame (his first book) he has a highly readable example of his scribbling to convince editors that he could go far as a journalist, whether as a travel writer, celebrity profiler or feature writer – someone who would more than hold his own amid the ephemera in the news and magazine stands.