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The Agonies And The Ex's

Isabel Colegate FORD MADOX FORD by Alan Judd Collins, £16.95, pp.471 T here was probably always something rather absurd about Ford Madox Ford. He was first so thin and then so......

The Pure Pleasure Of Being Naughty

Juliet Townsend DON'T TELL THE GROWN-UPS: SUBVERSIVE CHILDREN'S LITERATURE by Alison Lurie Bloomsbury, f12.99, pp. 229 I t is E. Nesbit who points out that, in order to succeed......