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The Reagans In Office And In Art

Michael M. Thomas MY TURN: THE MEMOIRS OF NANCY REAGAN by Nancy Reagan with William Novak Weidenfeld & Nicolson,115.95, pp-384 W ith this book, the propensity of the House of......

A Writer In Search Of A Subject

Anita Brookner THE PEOPLE AND UNCOLLECTED STORIES by Bernard Malamud Challo & Windus, £12.95, pp.269 H ere is a dilemma: a man who urgent- ly wants to be a writer, is indeed......

Rural Middlesex Again

Over the railway bridge we found the stream With a tractor tyre, pram wheels and odds and ends. I bagged the bits to make a go-cart from While Jonathan heaved the tyre out, two......