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Anne VICCARS BARBER The Tailor of Gloucester Beatrix Potter (Warne 20s) 'This is passing extraordinary!' said the tailor of Gloucester when searching for an explana- tion of the......

Enchanted Island

BRYAN ROBERTSON The Beautiful Island Meg Rutherford (Allen and Unwin 21s) Meg Rutherford is an Australian sculptress in her mid-thirties who studied at the Slade School of Art......

Shadow Line

LEON GARFIELD The Intruder John Rowe Townsend (our , 18s) Flambards In Summer K. M. Peyton (MP 18s) Both these books belong In what Conrad called the 'Shadow Line'—that strange,......

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Swash & buckle PETER VANSITTART A surprise item to absorb any fledgling author is Charlotte Bronte's The Search for Happiness (Harvill, 25s), 'written at 13, printed by Herself......