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On The Right Side Of The Thirties

Christopher Hawtree RED LETTER DAYS by Andrew Croft Lawrence &Wishart, £19.95, pp. 352 ubtitled 'British fiction in the 1930s', this is a study of some novels published in that......

The Old Jokes Are The Best Jokes

Richard Ingrams T he task of reviewing the funny books at Christmas becomes yearly more onerous and depressing. Television radio scripts, re-heated newspaper columns, incredibly......