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First Winter

By the time you look you've missed it, these lines are cold, the sky mussed, the snow-shy cardinal newly gone. Come and see this, I shouted, this red bird at the feeder, this......

What Clare Knew

Frances Partridge LOBSTER AT LITTLEHAMPTON by Clare Sheppard Tabb House, 12.95, £7.95, pp.176 T he striking title of this book of child- hood memories comes from the 'little......

Following In The Steps Of The Master

Anita Brookner SHARDS OF MEMORY by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala John Murray, £15.99, pp. 272 R eaders of this beautiful novel must first make an effort to disentangle the relationships......

Not Funny But Interesting

Julian Critchley UNDERGROUND HUMOUR IN NAZI GERMANY, 1933-45 by Franz Hillenbrand Routledge, £45, pp. 297 T hree years ago I gave lunch in the Commons to my daughter Melissa and......