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Fiction

Sleep of the Pigeon. By Wallace Fowlie. (Harvill Press. 7s. 6d.) Sometime Never. By Ro ald Dahl. (Collins. 8s. 6d.) ONE of the few literary advances of recent years is the fact......

Lumford

My Father's Son. By Richard Lumford. (Cape. 10s. 6d.) THIS strange and vivid book is the autobiography of a man now aged about forty. The names are changed but the facts are......

The Lambs Together

The Lambs. By Katherine Anthony. (Hammond and Hammond. 15s.) ONE evening in the autumn of 1796, Mary Lamb, then working as a seamstress, quarrelled with her apprentice. Old Mrs.......