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The Town That's Not What It Was

Francis King BREAKFAST IN BRIGHTON by Nigel Richardson Gollancz, £16.99, pp. 221 L ike the Ritz, Bath Olivers and the plays of Alan Ayckboum, Brighton is one of those British......

Going, Going, Gone

Jane Gardam RIVER BOY by Tim Bowler Oxford, £5.99, pp. 135 T he Carnegie Medal, the highest prize for children's fiction, has gone this year to an intense little book about the......