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How To Please The Youngsters

David Williams Laughter at the Door A continued autobiography Geoffrey'Trease (Macmillan E3.50) The Family Conspiracy Joan Phipson (Kestrel Books £1.95) Mb a Gunnel Beckman......

Fiction For Older Readers

George van Schaick The world can be a hard and cruel place, as a generation brought up on nightly news film from Northern Ireland, with Alf Garnet and Barlow as light relief,......