With her curling blond hair and her slender limbs and her beautiful clothes, Inez was alluring in an obvious way, and yet it was easy enough to see that her slightly protruding blue eyes were blank screens of self-love on which a small selection of fake emotions was allowed to flicker.

NEWYORKER: Noble Savages

Among Amazon's selection of books Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert, The Dangerous Book for Boys by Conn Iggulden and Hal Iggulden and I Am America (And So Can You) by Stephen Colbert were all cited.

FORBES: Online Holiday Cheer

Mr Hatton, for all his faults (a vast selection indeed), inflamed Liverpudlians, who love a good argument.

ECONOMIST: An Italian in Liverpool

But putting those selection issues to one side, Robinson concedes he would love to give the Sussex fans a repeat of their 2006 victory - particularly given this final is a local derby.

BBC: Yardy wants Sussex to keep focus