16 APRIL 1977, page 27

Child Labour

Benny Green The sudden revival in the fortunes of William Brown, long moribund at the back of the cupboard under the stairs, is a brutal remind' er that, like it or not,......

Waste Lands

Peter Ackroyd Sunrise Dominic Cooper (Chatto and Windus 0.95) Shadows on Our SkinJenniferJohnston (Ham ish Hamilton £3.50) Dominic Cooper's first novel, The Dead of Winter, was......